Introductory Digital Electronics: From Truth Tables to Microprocessors

by N. W. Heap

Overview

This book is an edited version of part of the teaching text used for the Open University's undergraduate course 'T283 Introductory Electronics', first presented in 1980. The original text was pro­ duced by a course team of nine authors and nine support staff. The team was also responsible for student experimental kits, television and radio programmes. The approach adopted by the course team was to try and teach, where possible, through specification of the problem rather than through discussion of the operation of a selection of available devices and components; since this leads more naturally to modem design strategies such as 'top-down'. The emphasis in the book on the solution of combinational and sequential logic problems by the truth tables and ROMs, rather than logic gates and mapping techniques, illustrates this approach. The book covers topics ranging from logic to microprocessor memory systems and is intended for students with a background in analogue electronics who wish to update their knowledge to include digital electronic systems. Chapter 2 introduces the basic ideas of combinational logic design; truth tables, ROMs, logic gates and Boolean algebra. Chapter 3 deals with sequential logic, and shows how one can design binary and decimal counters and use these to produce a system controller. Chapter 4 examines the system elements needed to interconnect analogue and digital systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335101849
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	06/30/1983
Edition description:	1982
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Combinational logic.- Binary Inputs and Outputs.- Truth Tables; Boolean Notation.- Electronic Combinational Logic.- Propagation Delay.- Summary.- Problems for Chapter 2.- Appendix to Chapter 2.- 3 Sequential Logic.- Memory Devices: Flip-flops and Registers 59 General Properties of Sequential Circuits:.- Counters and Sequencers.- Design of Counters.- Summary.- Problems for Chapter 3.- 4 Analogue/Digital Conversion.- Digital to Analogue Conversion.- Analogue to Digital Conversion.- Sample-and-hold Devices.- Multiplexers.- A Complete Analogue-to-digital Interface System.- Summary.- Problems for Chapter 4.- 5 Digital Components and Systems.- A Simple Memory.- Random-access Memory (RAM).- Read-only Memory (ROM).- Introducing the Microprocessor.- A Microprocessor System Configuration.- Problems for Chapter 5.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.