Radio Shack Basic Digital Electronics

In this book, Basic Digital Electronics, we explain the basic concepts and fundamentals of digital system functions, and the circuits used to perform those functions and build digital electronic systems. No segment of electronics has expanded more rapidly than digital electronics, led by the small size, low power, high reliability and low cost of integrated circuits, where all the circuitry is formed and interconnected on a single chip of silicon. This book explains in detail how digital circuits are designed and applied in systems that execute specific tasks. In a straightforward, easy-to-read language, using detailed illustrations, practical worked-out application examples solidify the understanding of the concepts as the discussions proceed. Anyone who want to know about digital systems, and how engineers design digital circuits should be able to learn from the explanations in Basic Digital Electronics. Basic Digital Electronics begins by identifying familiar systems to help understand the difference between analog and digital systems, and identifies the common functions required when designing digital systems, Digital circuits, and how they are designed, covering logic circuits that make decisions, sequential circuits for temporary storage, a variety of circuits to couple, convert and compute digitally, and memory circuits for more permanent storage of digital information are discussed in the next four chapters. A complete chapter is devoted to explain the basic techniques and manufacturing steps used to fabricate, assemble and test integrated circuits. The last two chapters conclude the learning by showing how the circuits and functions are combined into systems--first for computers, and then for digital communications. Multiple-choice quizzes and a set of questions and problems at the end of each chapter reinforce the learning. Answers to the quizzes are on the quiz page; worked-out answers to questions are given in the Appendix.