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Bebop to the Boolean Boogie
An Unconventional Guide to Electronics
The highly-successful, most readable and comprehensive introduction to contemporary digital electronics available!
Clive Maxfield (Author)
9781856175074, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 5 December 2008
568 pages, Approx. 400 illustrations
23.4 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.13 kg
"This is a dangerous book. . . . Not only do you stand a chance of learning something from it, but ten years from now you will still remember it!" --Pete Waddell, editor, Printed Circuit 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
This entertaining and readable book provides a solid, comprehensive introduction to contemporary electronics. It's not a "how-to-do" electronics book, but rather an in-depth explanation of how today's integrated circuits work, how they are designed and manufactured, and how they are put together into powerful and sophisticated electronic systems. In addition to the technical details, it's packed with practical information of interest and use to engineers and support personnel in the electronics industry. It even tells how to pronounce the alphabet soup of acronyms that runs rampant in the industry.
Section 1: Fundamentals1. Analog versus Digital 2. Atoms, Molecules, and Crystals 3. Conductors, Insulators, and Other Stuff 4. Semiconductors (Diodes and Transistors) 5. Primitive Logic Functions 6. Using Transistors to Build Logic Gates 7. Alternative Numbering Systems 8. Binary Arithmetic 9. Boolean Algebra 10. Karnaugh Maps 11. Slightly More Complex Functions 12. State Machines 13. Analog-to-Digital and Vice Versa Section 2: Components and Processes14. Integrated Circuits (ICs) 15. Memory ICs 16. Programmable ICs 17. Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) 18. Circuit Boards 19. Hybrids 20. System-in-Package (Sip) and Friends21. Alternative and Future Technologies Section 3: Design Tools and Stuff22. General Concepts 23. Design and Verification Tools AppendixA. Assertion-Level Logic B. Positive Logic versus Negative Logic C. Reed-Müller Logic D. Gray Codes E. Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) F. Pass-Transistor Logic G. More on Semiconductors H. Rounding Algorithms 101 I. Pass-Transistor Logic J. An Interesting Conundrum
Subject Areas: Engineering skills & trades [TGX]
