Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! [Paperback]

Myke Predko (Author), Michael Predko (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 19, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071377816 | ISBN-13: 978-0071377812 | Edition: 1st

Unlike simpler analogue circuits, digital circuits are able to store and process bits of information needed to make logical decisions. This book is a practical guide to explaining how digital circuits are designed and interfaced. There are 20 plus projects to help explain the concepts of designing digital circuits to the reader as well as wiring them to various devices.

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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 (Toronto, Ontario) is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is current a New Product Test Engineer at Celestica in Toronto where he works with new electronic product designers and has a patent pending regarding the automated test of PC Motherboards. He is the author of Programming & Customizing the PIC Microcontroller, Programming & Customizing the 8051 Microcontroller, the Handbook of Microcontroller, PC Ph.D. and PC Interfacing Pocket Reference.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Tab Books; 1st edition (November 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071377816
• ISBN-13: 978-0071377812
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,718,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TTL from the bottom up, February 6, 2002

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"joeldavidbrown" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! (Paperback)

I have a couple of myke's books (PIC, 8051) and this one is quite a departure from the normal run of the mill "microcontroller" books that he does. The book is devoted to explaining digital logic and he does a really good job and approaches it from a direction that I've never seen before.

For example, I've never seen anybody actually <i>build</i> a TTL gate out of discrete transistors and resistors before. This was really helpful for me - I've never really understood how the built in pull ups in a TTL gate worked before I read this book.

Myke has really latched onto the idea of including PCBs in his books and the power supply/TTL interface is really helpful to get the reader started in working with TTL. What I have always liked about Mykes books is that he really tries to provide circuits that the reader can build easily. With the power supply/interface PCBs included in the book, creating the experiments just takes a few moments. This is really nice.

JD

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Typo's Galore, May 9, 2003

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Scott Derrick (Grants, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! (Paperback)

I think the idea behind this book is fantastic and if there wern't so many typos and mistakes in the diagrams and project schematics it would be a 5 star book.

The ground and power bus is mislabeld in almost every project. Some of the projects won't run without fixing the bugs in the diagrams.

If there is a second edition, hopefully these issues will be resolved.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good idea, tons of errors, February 7, 2009

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GK (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! (Paperback)

The content of the book is good, and the included PCBs will be useful, but you MUST know enough about electronics to detect and correct the numerous errors in the wiring diagrams, etc.

The text is a little disorganized and key points and concepts are not as clear as they could be, but the information is good. This is NOT a book for complete beginners. If you're new to electronics, try a NerdKit instead.