Gates, flip-flops and registers, from switching algebra to finished CMOS circuits
Digital Electronics follows one standard university treatment of the subject from signals and logic gates through to memories and programmable fabric. It covers number systems and codes, switching algebra, combinational design and timing, and then the standard blocks — adders, multiplexers, decoders, comparators — alongside the storage elements, state machines, counters and shift registers built from them. The material is compressed: every topic is reorganised into short, self-contained articles that can be read in one spare half hour. Working through the collection leaves you able to read a digital schematic or its code, reduce a logic function to something buildable, design a clocked machine, and explain the electrical limits a CMOS gate has to live within.
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From a voltage on a wire to the blocks a designer actually chooses between.
From a voltage on a wire to the blocks a designer actually chooses between.
The number systems, codes and algebra that every combinational circuit is built on.
The number systems, codes and algebra that every combinational circuit is built on.
Documenting a circuit, pinning down its timing, and describing it in code.
Documenting a circuit, pinning down its timing, and describing it in code.
The standard blocks — decoders, multiplexers, adders — and what each one is good for.
The standard blocks — decoders, multiplexers, adders — and what each one is good for.
From one stored bit to a clocked machine that sequences a whole design.
From one stored bit to a clocked machine that sequences a whole design.
Counting, moving data about, and writing machines that survive synthesis.
Counting, moving data about, and writing machines that survive synthesis.
Making a clocked design reliable — and what the transistors underneath it are doing.
Making a clocked design reliable — and what the transistors underneath it are doing.
Where a finished design's data and logic finally live.
Where a finished design's data and logic finally live.
“A disciplined compression of a wide subject that keeps the engineering, not just the vocabulary.”
The sequence is conventional in the best sense: signals, then codes and algebra, then combinational practice, then storage and machines, then the electrical limits. What stands out is that timing and CMOS behaviour are treated as constraints throughout rather than as a closing chapter. Articles stay short enough to finish in one sitting.
Nano College takes the standard university textbook for a course and turns it into short, self-contained pieces you can actually finish. We keep the ground the textbook covers and the rigour it insists on; what we leave out is the padding that only exists to fill a semester.