CITATION

Predko, Myke. Digital Electronics Demystified. US: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004.

Digital Electronics Demystified

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Published:  December 2004

eISBN: 9780071471244 0071471243 | ISBN: 9780071441414
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgment
  • Part One: Introduction to Digital Electronics
  • Chapter 1 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
  • Chapter 2 Effectively Optimizing Combinatorial Circuits
  • Truth Table Function Reduction
  • Karnaugh Maps
  • Boolean Arithmetic Laws
  • Optimizing for Technology
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 3 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
  • Chapter 4 Number Systems
  • Base 16 or Hexadecimal Numbers
  • Binary Coded Decimal
  • Gray Codes
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 5 Binary Arithmetic Using Digital Electronics
  • Adders
  • Subtraction and Negative Numbers
  • Magnitude Comparators and Bus Nomenclature
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 6 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
  • Chapter 7 Feedback and Sequential Circuits
  • Flip Flops (RS and JK)
  • Edge Triggered Flip Flops
  • Latches Versus Registers
  • Reset
  • Quiz
  • Test for Part One
  • Part Two: Digital Electronics Applications
  • Chapter 8 Oscillators
  • Transistor Astable Oscillators
  • Ring Oscillators
  • Relaxation Oscillators
  • Crystals and Ceramic Resonators
  • 555 Timer Chip
  • Delay Circuits
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 9 Complex Sequential Circuits
  • Counters
  • Shift Registers
  • Linear Feedback Shift Registers
  • Hardware State Machines
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 10 Circuit Interfaces
  • Address and Data Decoders
  • Multi-Segment LEDs
  • Pulse Width Modulation
  • Button ‘‘Debouncing’’
  • Switch Matrix Keypad Interfacing
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 11 Reading Datasheets
  • Chip Operating Characteristics
  • IEEE Logic Symbols
  • Power Usage and Fanouts
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 12 Computer Processors and Support
  • IEEE754 Floating Point Numbers
  • Memory Types
  • Power Supplies
  • Programmable Logic Devices
  • Quiz
  • Chapter 13 PC Interfacing Basics
  • The Parallel (Printer) Port
  • Video Output
  • Synchronous Serial Interfaces (SPI, I2C, Microwire)
  • Asynchronous Serial Interfaces
  • RS-232 Electrical Standards
  • Quiz
  • Test for Part Two
  • Final Exam
  • Appendix: Answers to Quiz, Tests, and Final Exam
  • Index