The field of teaching digital electronics has not changed significantly in the past 20 years. Many of the same books that first became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s are still being used as basic texts. In the 20+ years since these were written, the basic rules have not changed, but they do not provide strong links to modern electronics including CMOS logic, Programmable Logic Devices and microprocessor/microcontroller interfacing. Courses teaching introductory digital electronics will fill in the missing areas of information for students, but neither the instructors nor students have resources to explain modern technology and interfaces. One assumption made by all the standard texts is that experimenting with digital electronics cannot be done easily - in the proposed book, "digital guru" Myke Predko will show how readers can set up their own apparatus for experimenting with digital electronics.

Table of Contents

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENT Part One: Introduction to Digital Electronics Chapter 1: The Underpinnings of Digital Electronics Chapter 2: Effectively Optimizing Combinatorial Circuits Chapter 3: Creating Digital Electronic Circuits Chapter 4: Number Systems Chapter 5: Binary Arithmetic Using Digital Electronics Chapter 6: Practical Combinatorial Circuit Implementation Chapter 7: Feedback and Sequential Circuits Test for Part One Part Two: Digital Electronics Applications Chapter 8: Oscillators Chapter 9: Complex Sequential Circuits Chapter 10: Circuit Interfaces Chapter 11: Reading Datasheets Chapter 12: Computer Processors and Support Chapter 13: PC Interfacing Basics Test for Part Two Final Exam APPENDIX: ANSWERS TO QUIZ, TESTS, AND FINAL EXAM INDEX

About the Author

Myke Predko is New Technologies Test Engineer at Celestica in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of McGraw-Hill's Programming and Customizing PICMicro Microcontrollers, Second Edition, and is a co-designer of both TAB Electronics Build Your Own Robot Kits.