Explains to young readers the essentials of how a computer works and includes twenty entertaining and educational projects that demonstrate basic concepts with the use of the Fun with Electronics workbench kit.

YOUR ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN!The explosion in communications and embedded computing technologies has brought with it a host of new skill requirements for electrical and electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. With engineers expected to have such diverse expertise, they need comprehensive, easy-to-understand guidance on the fundamentals of digital design.Enter McGraw-Hill’s Complete Digital Design. Written by an experienced electrical engineer and networking hardware designer, this book helps you understand and navigate the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. It includes: * Real world implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems * Broad presentation of supporting analog circuit principles * Building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologiesComplete Digital Design will teach you how to develop a customized set of requirements for any design problem—and then research and evaluate available components and technologies to solve it. Perfect for the professional, the student, and the hobbyist alike, this is one volume you need handy at all times!What you’ll find inside: * Digital logic and timing analysis * Integrated circuits * Microprocessor and computer architecture * Memory technologies * Networking and serial communications * Finite state machine design * Programmable logic: CPLD and FPGA * Analog circuit basics * Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers * Analog-to-digital conversion * Voltage regulation * Signal integrity and PCB design * And more!

This practical introduction explains exactly how digital circuits are designed, from the basic circuit to the advanced system. It covers combinational logic circuits, which collect logic signals, to sequential logic circuits, which embody time and memory to progress through sequences of states. The primer also highlights digital arithmetic and the integrated circuits that implement the logic functions.Based on the author's extensive experience in teaching digital electronics to undergraduates, the book translates theory directly into practice and presents the essential information in a compact, digestible style. Worked problems and examples are accompanied by abbreviated solutions, with demonstrations to ensure that the design material and the circuits' operation are fully understood.This is essential reading for any electronic or electrical engineering student new to digital electronics and requiring a succinct yet comprehensive introduction.

This is often considered the first book on computer programming. It was written for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer that began operation in 1949 as the world's first regularly operated stored program computer. The idea of a library of subroutines was developed for the EDSAC, and is described in this book. Maurice Wilkes lead the development of the EDSAC.