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title: Digital Electronics
description: Digital electronics focuses on circuits that process binary signals representing discrete states. Learners will understand logic gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, and memory devices, gaining the skills to analyze and build basic digital processing systems.
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subcategory: electrical-and-computer-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Digital Electronics

Digital electronics focuses on circuits that process binary signals representing discrete states. Learners will understand logic gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, and memory devices, gaining the skills to analyze and build basic digital processing systems.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites • 1 Papers

## Papers

### 1. Understanding and Interpreting Standard-Logic Data Sheets (SZZA036C)

**Author:** Stephen M. Nolan, Jose M. Soltero, Shreyas Rao

Texas Instruments application report explaining every parameter on a standard-logic datasheet: recommended operating conditions, VIH and VOL thresholds, propagation delay, setup and hold times, quiescent and dynamic supply current, ESD ratings, and the test conditions behind each specified number.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ti.com/lit/an/szza036c/szza036c.pdf

**Tags:** datasheets, logic-families, cmos, timing, digital-electronics

## Websites

### 1. Lessons In Electric Circuits, Volume IV: Digital

**Author:** Tony R. Kuphaldt

Tony Kuphaldt's openly licensed reference text covering numeration systems, Boolean algebra and Karnaugh maps, logic gates with their actual TTL and CMOS transistor-level implementations, multivibrators and flip-flops, counters, shift registers, digital memory, and analog-to-digital conversion.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/Digital/index.html

**Tags:** boolean-algebra, logic-gates, flip-flops, ttl, cmos, digital-electronics

## Youtubes

### 1. Ben Eater: Build an 8-bit Computer From Scratch

**Author:** Ben Eater

Video series building a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from discrete 74-series logic chips: clock module, shared bus, registers, ALU, SRAM, program counter, and microcoded control logic, debugged on-camera with a scope. Schematics and parts lists accompany the series at eater.net/8bit.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU

**Tags:** computer-architecture, breadboard, 74-series-logic, cpu-design, digital-electronics

## Courses

### 1. Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer From First Principles

**Author:** Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

Project course by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken in which a working computer is built starting from a single NAND gate: elementary gates, adders, an ALU, flip-flops, registers, RAM and a CPU, specified in a simple HDL and checked by a supplied hardware simulator.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.nand2tetris.org/

**Tags:** computer-architecture, logic-gates, hdl, cpu-design, digital-electronics

## Books

### 1. Digital Design and Computer Architecture, RISC-V Edition

**Author:** Sarah L. Harris, David Money Harris

Builds from Boolean algebra and CMOS gate construction through combinational and sequential logic, timing, finite state machines and SystemVerilog/VHDL, then uses those blocks to design a working RISC-V microprocessor and memory hierarchy.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128200642?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** digital-design, computer-architecture, risc-v, systemverilog, sequential-logic

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