introduction to digital electronics malvino

About the only possible complaint I could have at this point in the book is that some of the chapter review questions seem a bit tedious, particularly since we only have half the answers in the back so it's questionable whether those problems are worth doing since you can't confirm whether you correctly understand the material. While the book is definitely old, it's still very relevant, even with all of the improvements to computers over the last few decades. Along the way you'll take in many lessons on Boolean algebra and simplification techniques (don't let this scare you away - it's really not bad at all). I'm about half-way through the book and already cherish it for its very thorough explanations, starting from the simplest aspects (bits) and working towards more sophisticated elements of circuit design (truth tables with Karnaugh Maps). Malvino has a way with words and manages to simplify many aspects of low level digital electronics. since we still fundamentally use the same architecture, believe it or not. One of those rare, simple elegant books, that can get you started and then hook us on to the subject.Ībsolutely relevent today as well. and then on to,in fact, build a commercial microprocessor of the age, step by step. the register, program counter, Arithmetic, Logic Unit, The Instruction Decoder. It builds on absolutely fundamental concepts, logical components, simple logic gates, the mysterious flip-flop, the universal gate, the ROM, and then on to the stored program computer.

I took home this book, and simply read the book through the night. I was lucky to find a copy of this book in my school library. General popular science articles weren't clear enough to give the complete picture. The idea that they can make decisions, remember things etc.

After hearing about digital computers while in high school (this was mid 80s), I was extremely curious about understanding how these so called 'computers' work.

Introduction to digital electronics malvino