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Despite a light-hearted title and an off-beat attitude throughout, this is a technical book, arranged in two sections, the first on fundamental electronics concepts and the second on components and processes. Coverage includes the difference between the analog and digital worlds; primitive logic functions; alternative numbering systems; Boolean algebra; Karnaugh maps; integrated circuits; circuit boards; hybrids; multichip modules; and alternative and future technologies. Includes numerous appendices. No references. Published by HighText Publications, PO Box 1489, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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What you will discover: the difference between the analog and digital worlds what logic gates are and how to make them from transistors where numbers come from and why the Babylonian's counting systems gave them so many problems when it rained what integrated circuits, circuit boards, hybrids, and multichip modules are, how they are made, and what they're used for how to survive the experience of assertion-level logic, positive logic, negative logic, and pass-transistor logic where computers came from and what Charles Babbage and his lady friend did in their spare time superconductors, diamond substrates, optical interconnection technologies, virtual hardware and much, much more!
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