Digital Electronics

Until his retirement in March 2022, Gareth Monkman BA., BSc., MSc., PhD was Professor for Robotics and Automation (Sensors and actuators) and director of the Mechatronics Research Unit at at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany. With over 200 publications in a diverse range of disciplines, Gareth Monkman has contributed significantly to the research community. He has been a member of the German Institute of Electrical Engineers (VDE) for over 25 years.

Contents.- Introduction.- Basic digital devices.- Combinational Logic.- Karnaugh maps.- Sum of Products (SoP) = disjunctive normal form.- Product of Sums (PoS) = conjunctive normal form.- Canonical form (Multiplexers).-Arithmetic and logic unit (ALU).- Codes (BCD, XS3, Gray, ASCII and 7-segment).- Sequential Logic.- Flip-Flops.-State diagrams.- Counters and registers.- Historical development of memory.- Binary Mathematics.- Base change.- Subtraction through Complement.- Fractions.- Binary multiplication and division.- The central processing unit (CPU).- ALU.- History of the microprocessor.- Assembler language programming.- Machine code, microprograms and assembler.- Bus systems.- Parity and checksum.- Manchester encoding.