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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series
Pulse, Digital, and Switching Waveforms: Devices and Circuits for Their Generation and Processing
"This book describes active and passive devices and circuit configuration used for the generation and processing of pulse, digital, and switching waveforms. These nonsinusoidal signals find extensive application in such fields as computers, control systems, counting and timing systems, data-processing systems, digital instrumentation, pulse communications, radar, telemetry, television, and in many areas of experimental research." - Preface
958 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1965
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November 9, 2022
This is "the classic" book on digital logic and pulse circuitry from 1965. At the time, there were plenty of books on straight forward linear circuit theory, making oscillators and amplifiers. But almost nothing on pulsed or digital circuits.
The book covers logic design, a multitude of circuits for basic gates (and, or, inverter, XOR) and all kinds of flipflops and registers (but not the J/K flipflop.. that came later), with both tubes and transistors. Lots of timing circuits (astable and monostable multivibrators) and such, as well as counters and dividers.
If you were building nuclear instrumentation or digital logic back in the 60s, this was your reference.
By the 70s, with digital logic ICs becoming available, the need to build discrete circuits were less, and the need to build a ring counter with triodes essentially went away. But the underlying principles here endure.
I used this book as a reference even into the 80s. Back in the 60s, all kinds of tricks were needed to get computation done with slow devices - serial adders, shift registers, ring counters, etc. Well, even though the parts get faster, you still need to do things they won't do, so you drag out the old techniques, just using modern TTL or ECL gates.
The book covers logic design, a multitude of circuits for basic gates (and, or, inverter, XOR) and all kinds of flipflops and registers (but not the J/K flipflop.. that came later), with both tubes and transistors. Lots of timing circuits (astable and monostable multivibrators) and such, as well as counters and dividers.
If you were building nuclear instrumentation or digital logic back in the 60s, this was your reference.
By the 70s, with digital logic ICs becoming available, the need to build discrete circuits were less, and the need to build a ring counter with triodes essentially went away. But the underlying principles here endure.
I used this book as a reference even into the 80s. Back in the 60s, all kinds of tricks were needed to get computation done with slow devices - serial adders, shift registers, ring counters, etc. Well, even though the parts get faster, you still need to do things they won't do, so you drag out the old techniques, just using modern TTL or ECL gates.
June 16, 2016
Classic text. but uses a out dated approach of teaching. if you are any thing like me and get frustrated when you don't understand something after putting effort into it,this might not be for you. it contains good info on variations of each circuit though.
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