Digital electronics
by Roger L. Tokheim · first published 1979
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…see signals from chips and analyse them to find the problem. And in doing so I have quickly realised that I am missing something. This something was ‘How chips actually work’. Turned out it was called Digital electronics so I’ve decided to learn this on the way. My treasure and source of inspiration at school time was this book: Digital Electronics by Roger Tokheim. I was dragging it to school and back every day just…
on “FPGAs and the Renaissance of Retro Hardware” ↗…some classes that look interesting, and see what books they require then buy them or see if a library has them. https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fundamentals-10th-Thomas-Floy... or https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Electronics-Practical-Approac... are fairly good for instance but there are many others and some more appropriate for whatever your real study goals are. It's really important to have a specific goal in mind regardless…
on “Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1” ↗…calculators to extract buttons 1.6.3 Making keyboard with extracted buttons. 1.7 Turning On the computer. Discovering it’s not working and needs debugging. 1.8 Learning Digital electronics for some time from the book “Digital Electronics” by Tokhaim. Discovering that local schematics are not the same as in the foreign book. Oops! :) Tracing all kind of problems. Fixing them one by one and…
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