Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! - Softcover

Predko, Myke; Predko, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071377816 ISBN 13: 9780071377812

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2001

Synopsis

Master digital electronics from the inside out! Here's the perfect tool for electronics hobbyists and students¿even complete beginners--who want to understand digital logic and build their own low-cost logic circuits. You get more than 20 projects for designing, constructing, and interfacing easy-to-do TTL (Transistor-Transistor Logic) circuits. This guidebook provides everything from directions for setting up your own digital electronics lab to explanations of needed math and basic electronics. Construct your own simple 8-bit computer and learn how computers really work. Find tips for making circuits that switch, count, time, measure, control, combine input and output, switch-bounce, "think," and much more. Get guidance on creating, prototyping, and debugging sophisticated applications of your own design. Useful tables, data and formulas, and demonstrations of project assembly techniques, such as wrapping and soldering, add to the hands-on support, along with the reusable printed circuit board included with the text.

About this title

From the Back Cover

PACKED WITH PROJECTS, THIS BOOK HELPS YOU MASTER DIGITAL ELECTRONICS FROMTHE INSIDE OUT!

* Perfect for electronics hobbyists and students--even complete beginners--who want to understand digital logic and build their own low-cost logic circuits
* Featuring more than 20 projects with step-by-step directions for designing, constructing, and interfacing easy-to-do TTL (Transistor-Transistor Logic) circuits
* Everything you need to rediscover the neglected art of pure digital electronics and create working projects--even a simple computer!

THE HEART OF DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

Though ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) have largely replaced TTL chips, it is TTLs that gtive electronics enthusiasts the power to design and build logic circuits from scratch. The first Apple computers were run by rows and rows of TTLs--it's TTLs that expose how digital logic really works.

THE BEST WAY TO EXPLORE DIGITAL ELECTRONICS--AND TO MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU--MYKE PREDKO'S DIGITAL ELECTRONICS GUIDEBOOK (WITH PROJECTS) IS A COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR THE EXPERIMENTER.

* All the help you need-from directions for setting up your own digital electronics lab to explanations of needed math and basic electronics
* Over 20 interesting projects, which demonstrate the power and possibilities of logic circuits you can build
* Tips for making circuits that switch, count, time, measure, control, combine input and output, switch-bounce, "think," and much more
* Learn how computers really work
* Construct your own simple 8-bit computer
* All the options you need to build sophisticated applications of your own design
* Guidance on creating, prototyping, and debugging your applications
* Reusable printed circuit board included
* Additional parts easily available (from Radio Shack, for instance)
* Demonstrations of project assembly techniques, such as wrapping and soldering
* Appendix with useful tables, data, and formulas

About the Author

MYKE PREDKO is the author of THE MICROCONTROLLER HANDBOOK: PROGRAMMING & CUSTOMIZING THE 8051 MICROCONTROLLER and PROGRAMMING & CUSTOMIZING THE PICMicro MICROCONTROLLERS, also from McGraw-Hill. As a New Product Test Engineer at Celestica in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Myke works with innovative electronic product designs. He has also been a test engineer, product engineer, and manufacturing manager for some of the world largest computer manufacturers. Mr. Predko has a patent pending on an automated test for PC motherboards as well as patents pending on microcontroller architecure design. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0071377816
• ISBN 13: 9780071377812
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528