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Digital Fundamentals

Author: Thomas L. Floyd
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2008, 880pp, 10th ed.

This bestselling introductory textbook provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of digital fundamentals, from basic concepts to microprocessors, programmable logic, and digital signal processing. The textbook's vivid full-color format is packed with photographs, illustrations, tables, charts, and graphs; valuable visual aids that today's user needs to understand this often complex computer application. For those in the computer industry where a knowledge of introductory digital programming is essential.
Table of contents
1Introductory Digital Concepts1
2Number Systems, Operations, and Codes36
3Logic Gates94
4Boolean Algebra and Logic Simplification154
5Combinational Logic212
6Functions of Combinational Logic256
7Introduction to Programmable Logic Devices336
8Flip-Flops and Related Devices382
9Counter440
10Shift Registers506
11Sequential Logic Applications of PLDs550
12Memories588
13Interfacing652
14Introduction to Microprocessors and Microcomputers702
15Integrated Circuit Technologies734
Appendix AData SheetsA-1
Appendix BError Detection and CorrectionA-30
Appendix CConversionsA-36
Answers to Self-TestsA-38
Answers to Related Exercises for ExamplesA-40
Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered ProblemsA-54
GlossaryGL-1
IndexIN-1