Digital Fundamentals

Description
This best-selling text, recognized as the authority on digital fundamentals for over 30 years, provides thorough, current coverage from basic concepts to advanced topics. Coverage includes programmable logic, digital signal processing, and integrated circuit theories. Celebrated for its clear writing style and numerous examples, exercises, and problems, this text emphasizes applications and troubleshooting to assist readers in developing the practical skills that will be needed in their professional careers.

• Core Fundamentals are presented without being intermingled with advanced or peripheral topics
• Chapter 12 provides optional coverage of IC technology (inside-the-chip circuitry)
• Introduction and objectives are at the beginning of each section within a chapter
• Check up exercises conclude each section of a chapter
• Each worked example has a Related Problem
• Summaries at the end of each chapter aid in recapitulation.
• Multiple-choice self-test at the end of each chapter
• Coverage of CMOS and bipolar IC technologies

• The System Application Activities (formerly Digital System Applications) have been thoroughly revised.
• More end-of-chapter problems
• A true/false quiz at the end of every chapter
• Boolean simplification coverage now includes the Quine-McClusky method in an appendix
• Coverage of the cyclic redundancy code (CRC)
• Introduction to multi-core processors

1. Introductory Concepts
2. Number Systems, Operations, and Codes
3. Logic Gates
4. Boolean Algebra and Logic Simplification
5. Combinational Logic Analysis
6. Functions of Combinational Logic
7. Latches and Flip-Flops
8. Counters
9. Shift Registers
10. Memory and Storage
11. Programmable Logic and Software
12. Integrated Circuit Technologies