| Description |
1 online resource (x, 483 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Fundamentals -- Analog versus digital -- Atoms, molecules, and crystals -- Conductors and insulators; voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, and inductance -- Semiconductors: diodes and transistors -- Primitive logic functions -- Using transistors to build primitive logic functions -- Alternative numbering systems -- Binary arithmetic -- Boolean algebra -- Karnaugh maps -- Using primitive logic functions to build more complex functions -- State diagrams, state yables, and state machines -- Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog -- Integrated circuits (ICs) -- Memory ICs -- Programmable ICs -- Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) -- Circuit boards -- Hybrids -- Multichip modules (MCMs) -- Alternative and future technologies -- Appendix A: Assertion-level logic -- Appendix B: Positive logic versus negative logic -- Appendix C: Reed-Müller logic -- Appendix D: Gray codes -- Appendix E: A Reed-Müller extraction utility -- Appendix F: Linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) -- Appendix G: Pass-transistor logic -- Appendix H: A no-holds-barred seafood gumbo |
| Summary |
From reviews of the first edition: "If you want to be reminded of the joy of electronics, take a look at Clive (Max) Maxfield's book Bebop to the Boolean Boogie."--Computer Design "Lives up to its title as a useful and entertaining technical guide ... well-suited for students, technical writers, technicians, and sales and marketing people."--Electronic Design "Writing a book like this one takes audacity! ... Maxfield writes lucidly on a variety of complex topics without 'writing down' to his audience."--EDN "A highly readable, well-illustrated guided tour through basic electronics."--Science Books & Films "Extremely readable and easy to understand, you'll wonder how people learned about this stuff before this book came along."--New Book Bulletin, Computer Literacy Bookshops * The difference between the analog and digital worlds. * What logic gates are and how to make them from transistors |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Digital electronics -- Popular works
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Microelectronics.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Digital.
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Digital electronics
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780080476025 |
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0080476023 |
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0750675438 |
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9780750675437 |
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1281051993 |
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9781281051998 |
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9786611051990 |
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6611051996 |
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