Vol. IV - Digital

Vol IV. Credits

All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major contributions are listed by individual name with some detail on the…

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Digital Signals and Gates

Digital Signals and Gates

While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical abstraction, we haven\'t yet seen its practical application to electronics. This…

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The NOT Gate

The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually too crude to be of practical use as a gate. Real inverter…

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The Buffer Gate

If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output of one fed into the input of…

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Multiple-input Gates

Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities for single-input gate circuits. What more can be done with a single logic signal…

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Numbers and Symbols

The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take for granted. This is both a good and a…

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Systems of Numeration

The Romans devised a system that was a substantial improvement over hash marks, because it used a variety of symbols…

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Octal and Hexadecimal Numeration

Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent relatively small numbers compared to the economy of the decimal system,…

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Octal and Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion

Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems is for the "shorthand" representation of binary numbers in digital…

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Decimal versus Binary numeration

Let's count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of numeration systems: hash marks, Roman numerals, decimal, and binary:…

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