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The Master IC Cookbook (Ranade IBM Series)

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This book is mistitled. In electronics parlance, a "cookbook" contains example circuits. And while the publisher's description does state that the book "focuses on the ICs themselves rather than the circuits in which they are used..." you still expect to get something that will help you in applying the circuits. What you get is a short description of each circuit, a pinout diagram (printed very, very large), and 4-5 selected specifications. You could assemble this whole book in one night by doing cut-and-paste operations from the chip manufacturers web sites. Now that we can download complete spec sheets via the Internet, no one needs a book like this one.

hundreds of pinouts and truthtables plus general info such as power dissapation and propagation time. book is wrote at an intermediate electronics level therefor if you don't have a clue what the chip is for don't look it up all info can be found on ic manufacture's web site. if you want to cut and paste 500 pages do that. if you want a book that gives pinouts and general info it is worth the money. if you can't design circuits and need pictures buy a hobby book. all chip info given on chips is 1-2 pages

This book has numerous errors in it. Each page has a different IC on it, along with a description. Unfortunately, when the author was cutting and pasting, he forgot to change some of the information. Thus, specs will sometimes refer to the chip on the previous page by mistake. The diagrams are very ugly and inconsistent in style from page to page. They look like they were drawn by kids. Also, the type of IC information given is inconsistent from page to page.

In addition, very low quality paper is used to make the book.