Lab Experiments in Digital Electronics

This manual was designed to teach, via experimentation, the fundamental theories and operation of digital electronics. As such, it should be used with a textbook or some other reference that presents the topics covered. Almost any introduction to digital electronics book will work. Topics are laid out from simple to complex so it is recommended that all work be carried out in the sequence presented. Eight rather broad topics are covered in the text. Sections 3 and 4 are presented in great detail. This approach allows the student to see and apply fundamentals of circuit construction. As the text progresses, it is expected that the learner will become proficient in these fundamentals and will not need to be continuously reminded of them. This will make the labs shorter on paper but larger on the proto-board.The book uses basic gates, referred to as "primitives." The digital components are exclusively transistor to transistor logic (TTL). These were selected to make the labs more or less ESD safe.