Practical Electronic Design for Experimenters

CHAPTER 11Digital Design

Digital equipment dominates electronics today. Logic circuits, embedded microcontrollers, and computers are at the heart of most electronic gear these days. Analog and linear circuits have not gone away and will never disappear. They continue to play a support role to the digital circuitry. However, every engineer needs to know how to design basic digital circuits. There is lots to it, but this chapter attempts to boil it down to some basic procedures you can use to implement most new designs.

NOTE: This chapter assumes that you have some digital background, including knowledge of binary numbers, basic logic gates, flip flops, and the most common digital ICs. However, some of these fundamentals will be reviewed briefly ...