Predko M. Digital Electronics Demystified

McGraw-Hill, 2005. — 370 p. — ISBN 978-0071441414.Now anyone can gain a deeper understanding of digital electronics -- without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Digital Electronics Demystified, electronics expert and author M. Predko provides a totally painless way to learn enough digital logic and electronics to build your own projects!
With Digital Electronics Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique guide offers problems at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 100-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.This entertaining self-teaching course makes it fun and easy to learn digital electronics fast. Get ready to:
Learn the ins and outs of CMOS logic, Programmable Logic Devices, and microprocessor/microcontroller interfacing;
Rub shoulders with MML (Mickey Mouse Logic), semiconductor chips, timing devices, and other digital phenomena;
Understand how computers "think";
Cease shying away from feedback circuits;
Build digital projects for less than $10;
Create a marketable product;
Rate your progress with questions and quizzes.Preface.
Acknowledgment.Introduction to Digital Electronics.
The Underpinnings of Digital Electronics.
Boolean Arithmetic, Truth Tables and Gates.
The Six Elementary Logic Operations.
Combinatorial Logic Circuits: Combining Logic Gates.
Sum of Products and Product of Sums.
Waveform Diagrams.
Quiz.
Effectively Optimizing Combinatorial Circuits.
Truth Table Function Reduction.
Karnaugh Maps.
Boolean Arithmetic Laws.
Optimizing for Technology.
Quiz.
Creating Digital Electronic Circuits.
Basic Electronic Laws.
Capacitors.
Semiconductor Operation.
Logic Gate Input and Output.
Simple Digital Logic Circuit Development.
Testing a Simple TTL Inverter.
Quiz.
Number Systems.
Base 16 or Hexadecimal Numbers.
Binary Coded Decimal.
Gray Codes.
Quiz.
Binary Arithmetic Using Digital Electronics.
Adders.
Subtraction and Negative Numbers.
Magnitude Comparators and Bus Nomenclature.
Multiplication and Division.
Quiz.
Practical Combinatorial Circuit Implementation.
Race Conditions and Timing Analysis.
Quick and Dirty Logic Gates.
Dotted AND and Tri-State Logic Drivers.
Combining Functions on a Net.
Quiz.
Feedback and Sequential Circuits.
Flip Flops (RS and JK).
Edge Triggered Flip Flops.
Latches Versus Registers.
Reset.
Quiz.Digital Electronics Applications.
Oscillators.
Transistor Astable Oscillators.
Ring Oscillators.
Relaxation Oscillators.
Crystals and Ceramic Resonators.
555 Timer Chip.
Delay Circuits.
Quiz.
Complex Sequential Circuits.
Counters.
Shift Registers.
Linear Feedback Shift Registers.
Hardware State Machines.
Quiz.
Circuit Interfaces.
Address and Data Decoders.
Multi-Segment LEDs.
Pulse Width Modulation.
Button "Debouncing".
Switch Matrix Keypad Interfacing.
Quiz.
Reading Datasheets.
Chip Operating Characteristics.
IEEE Logic Symbols.
Power Usage and Fanouts.
Quiz.
Computer Processors and Support.
IEEE754 Floating Point Numbers.
Memory Types.
Power Supplies.
Programmable Logic Devices.
Quiz.
PC Interfacing Basics.
The Parallel (Printer) Port.
Video Output.
Synchronous Serial Interfaces (SPI, I2C, Microwire).
Asynchronous Serial Interfaces.
RS-232 Electrical Standards.
Quiz.Appendix. Answers to Quiz, Tests, and Final Exam.
Index.