Digital Fundamentals

Packed with full-color photographs, illustrations, graphs, and more, this acclaimed introduction to digital fundamentals emphasizes troubleshooting and applications using real devices. It provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of digital fundamentals, from basic concepts to microprocessors. Supports clear, accurate explanations of theory with superior exercises, examples, and visual aids. Includes only the mathematics readers need to understand certain concepts. Is accompanied by an Electronics Workbench circuits disk that is keyed to problems and activities in the book. Offers Electronics Workbench tutorials for many of the chapters on a book, specific Web, site.

Geared toward both student and instructor, this text covers basic concepts, current technology, practical applications, and troubleshooting. Each chapter contains a self-test. Contents include number systems, operations, and codes; logic gates; Boolean algebra and logic simplification; combinational logic and its functions; programmable logic devices (PLDs); flip-flops and related devices; counters; shift registers; sequential logic applications of PLDs; memories; interfacting; microprocessors and microcomputers; and integrated circuit technologies. Three appendices cover data sheets, error detection and correction, and conversions. No bibliography.
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