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Bebop to the Boolean boogie : an unconventional guide to electronics fundamentals, components, and processes / by Clive (call me "Max) Maxfield ; foreword by Pete Waddell.

By: Maxfield, Clive, 1957-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Solana Beach, Calif. : HighText, 1995Description: xxxi, 471 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1878707221 .Subject(s): Digital electronics -- Popular worksDDC classification: 621.395
Contents:
Section 1: Fundamental concepts -- 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 tables and state machines -- Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog -- Section 2: Components & Processes -- Integrated circuits (ICs) -- Memory ICs -- Programmable ICs -- Application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) -- Circuit boards (PWBs and DWBs) -- Hybrids -- Multichip modules (MCMs) -- Alternative and future technologies.

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What you will discover: the difference between the analog and digital worlds what logic gates are and how to make them from transistors where numbers come from and why the Babylonian's counting systems gave them so many problems when it rained what integrated circuits, circuit boards, hybrids, and

Includes index.

Section 1: Fundamental concepts -- 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 tables and state machines -- Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog -- Section 2: Components & Processes -- Integrated circuits (ICs) -- Memory ICs -- Programmable ICs -- Application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) -- Circuit boards (PWBs and DWBs) -- Hybrids -- Multichip modules (MCMs) -- Alternative and future technologies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Section 1 Fundamental Concepts
  • Chapter 1 Analog versus Digital
  • Chapter 2 Atoms, Molecules, and Crystals
  • Chapter 3 Conductors and Insulators
  • Voltage, Current, Resistance, Capacitance, and Inductance
  • Chapter 4 Semiconductors: Diode and Transistors
  • Chapter 5 Primitive Logic Functions
  • Chapter 6 Using Transistors to Build Primitive Logic Functions
  • Chapter 7 Alternative Numbering Systems
  • Chapter 8 Binary Arithmetic
  • Chapter 9 Boolean Algebra
  • Chapter 10 Karnaugh Maps
  • Chapter 11 Using Primitive Logic Functions to Build More Complex Functions
  • Chapter 12 State Diagrams, State Tables, State Machines
  • Chapter 13 Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog
  • Chapter 14 Integrated Circuits (ICs)
  • Chapter 15 Memory ICs
  • Chapter 16 Programmable ICs
  • Chapter 17 Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
  • Chapter 18 Circuit Boards (PWBs and DWBs)
  • Chapter 19 Hybrids
  • Chapter 20 Multichip Modules (MCMs)
  • Chapter 21 Alternative and Future Technologies
  • Appendix A Assertion-Level Logic
  • Appendix B Positive Logic versus Negative Logic
  • Appendix C Reed-Muller Logic
  • Appendix D Gray Codes
  • Appendix E A Reed-Muller Extraction Utility
  • Appendix F Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs)
  • Appendix G Pass-Transistor Logic
  • Appendix H No-Holds-Barred Seafood Gumbo