Digital IC Gallery

Aids the experimenter, hobbyist, and engineer in identifying digital integrated circuits of interest in two primary logic families 7400 series TTL and the several series of CMOS. The descriptions include connection diagrams for the dual-in-line (DIP) package, logic diagrams, truth and function tables and/or logic symbol diagrams, plus a brief functional summary. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

As an experimenter or hobbyist, unless you have access to the multitudes of manufacturers' data books, it is difficult, if not impossible, to discover the full range of devices that may be available and appropriate for your intended application. Vendor catalogs often contain only a partial listing, and often only the best-sellers are shown.

The Digital IC Gallery is intended to assist you in identifying digital devices in the TTL and CMOS logic families. Author Clement S. Pepper, with over 30 years of R&D and one-of-a-kind system development under his belt, has compiled a comprehensive study of the latest semiconductors, complete with logic and connection diagrams, truth tables, functional descriptions, and performance data.

Along with chapters on digital IC basics and gate logic, Mr. Pepper has included a glossary of definitions related to this industry, revealing differing terminologies that competing manufacturers use for the same parameters. An appendix also lists numerous manufacturers' data books that are available. The main chapters include:

Monostables and Timers
Flip-Flops
Latches and Shift Registers
Counters and Dividers
Decoders and Encoders
Multiplexers and Demultiplexers
Arithmetic and Logical Functions
Buffers and Line Drivers/Receivers
Bus Transceivers

If you work with, or just dabble with, IC devices, this book belongs on your workbench!