Bebop to the Boolean Boogie

This entertaining and readable book provides a solid, comprehensive introduction to contemporary electronics. It's not a "how-to-do" electronics book, but rather an in-depth explanation of how today's integrated circuits work, how they are designed and manufactured, and how they are put together into powerful and sophisticated electronic systems. In addition to the technical details, it's packed with practical information of interest and use to engineers and support personnel in the electronics industry. It even tells how to pronounce the alphabet soup of acronyms that runs rampant in the industry.

• Written in conversational, fun style that has generated a strong following for the author and sales of over 14,000 copies for the first two editions
• The Third Edition is even bigger and better, with lots of new material, illustrations, and an expanded glossary
• Ideal for training incoming engineers and technicians, and for people in marketing or other related fields or anyone else who needs to familiarize themselves with electronics terms and technology

Electrical and Electronic engineers, technicians, technical marketing personnel, and anyone wanting an introduction to digital logic/circuits

Section 1: Fundamentals
1. Analog versus Digital
2. Atoms, Molecules, and Crystals 
3. Conductors, Insulators, and Other Stuff
4. Semiconductors (Diodes and Transistors)
5. Primitive Logic Functions
6. Using Transistors to Build Logic Gates
7. Alternative Numbering Systems
8. Binary Arithmetic 
9. Boolean Algebra
10. Karnaugh Maps
11. Slightly More Complex Functions
12. State Machines
13. Analog-to-Digital and Vice Versa

Section 2: Components and Processes
14. Integrated Circuits (ICs)
15. Memory ICs
16. Programmable ICs
17. Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
18. Circuit Boards
19. Hybrids
20. System-in-Package (Sip) and Friends
21. Alternative and Future Technologies Section 3: Design Tools and Stuff
22. General Concepts
23. Design and Verification Tools

Appendix
A. Assertion-Level Logic
B. Positive Logic versus Negative Logic
C. Reed-Müller Logic
D. Gray Codes
E. Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs)
F. Pass-Transistor Logic
G. More on Semiconductors 
H. Rounding Algorithms 101 
I. Pass-Transistor Logic
J. An Interesting Conundrum