Digital Integrated Electronics
Herbert Taub, Donald L. Schilling · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1976
This book represents the third generation of textbooks coauthored by H. Taub covering the general topics of pulse, switching, digital, and integrated circuits. The progression to the present book started in 1956 with Pulse and Digital Circuits, a text treating digital and switching circuits almost exclusively with vacuum-tube devices. A decade later the highly acclaimed and well-recognized book, Pulse. Digital, and Switching Woveforms, was issued in the second generation. In this volume, the importance of the transistor was emphasized and vacuum-tube circuits were presented only incidentally. Now, after another decade, the numerous advancements in integrated circuits have prompted the present work. The purpose of this text is to describe and analyze almost all of the basic integrated circuit building blocks from which digital circuits and systems are assembled. However, as noted in the Preface, Digital Integrated Electronics is intended as a continuation of Pulse, Digital, and Switching Woveforms rather than as a replacement. The reviewer agrees totally with this conclusion since the 1965 work provides a more thorough-and deeper treatment of fundamental semiconductor device operation than the present work. Use of the book presumes some background in semiconductor devices and circuits. The reviewer feels the book is so well written that a previous familiarity by the reader with semiconductor device characteristics, biasing, modeling, and amplifier analysis will be quite adequate for easy comprehension of the topics presented. The level and duration of the material are appropriate for a two-semester course coming in the late junior and senior years. Selected sections of the text are quite appropriate for a one semester or one quarter graduate level course dealing generally with hardware for instrumentation, timing, and data acquisition and storage techniques. For those having the suggested background with semiconductors, Chapter 1 is generally a review except that here these devices are treated from a switching mode viewpoint rather than the more conventional “linearized” amplifier model. The reader must make this change in viewpoint in order to appreciate the contents of the remaining chapters. Chapter 2 provides a further transition between the analog and digital viewpoints by first describing operational amplifier concepts, and then using this device as a vehicle for explaining the principles and operation of