Preface
Modern digital electronics is dominated by two basic logic technologies, those of TTL (Transistor–Transistor Logic) and CMOS (Complementary MOS-FET logic), and by two major ranges of general-purpose digital ICs, the ‘74’-series and the ‘4000’-series. This uniquely informative and practical ‘Pocket Book’ book takes an in-depth look at both of these technologies and at the most important types of digital IC available in the ‘74’- and ‘4000’-series ranges of devices. The book presents the reader with 620 outstandingly useful and carefully selected circuits, diagrams, graphs and tables, backed up by over 75,000 words of highly informative ‘how it works’ and ‘how to use it’ text and captions, and gives detailed descriptions and application information on more than 185 modern digital ICs.
The manual is split into 15 chapters. The first three explain digital IC basics, describe TTL and CMOS principles, introduce the various modern sub-families within the ‘74’-series range of ICs, and explain TTL basic-usage rules, etc. Chapter 4 takes a detailed look at modern CMOS principles and usage rules, and Chapter 5 gives a practical introduction to CMOS digital IC use via the 4007UB IC. Chapter 6 deals with modern logic circuitry; it starts off by looking at the symbology and mathematics of digital logic, then presents a mass of practical logic circuitry and data. The next seven chapters progress through bilateral switch ICs, waveform generator circuitry, clocked flip-flop and counter circuits, special counter/dividers, data latches, registers, comparators, and code converters. Chapter 14 deals with specialized types of IC such as multiplexers, demultiplexers, addressable latches, decoders, full-adders, bus transceivers, priority encoders, and rate multipliers, etc. The final chapter presents a miscellaneous collection of digital IC circuits.
The book, though aimed specifically at all practical design engineers, technicians, and experimenters, will doubtless also be of great interest to all amateurs and students of electronics. It deals with its subject in an easy-to-read, down-to-earth, mainly non-mathematical but very comprehensive and professional manner. Each chapter begins by explaining the basic principles of its subject and then goes on to present the reader with a great mass of practical circuits and useful data, all of which have been fully evaluated and/or verified by the author.
Throughout the volume, great emphasis is placed on practical ‘user’ information and circuitry, and this book, like all other volumes in the Electronic Circuits Pocket Book series, abounds with useful facts and data. Most of the ICs described in the book are modestly priced and readily available types.
The reader may note that I generated all of this manual’s 620 diagrams, graphs and tables, etc., via a standard 33MHz 486DX PC and LaserJet IIIp printer, using the excellent low-cost ‘Top Draw 2.0’ and ‘CorelDRAW 3’ Windows artwork/CAD packages and my own sets of circuit symbols.