book?

um..., Hi

hey,

I was looking at all the different IC's there are and i was wondering if there is a book that explains what each device does? beacuse i have no clue what a "quad 2-input multiplexer" is, lol.

Thanx,
MM

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Chris Savage

Hello,

·· You can find the datasheet on Google by typing in "datasheet 7402" for example, to find the datasheet for the 7402.· Just replace 7402 with the part number you're looking for specs on.

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David B

Search Amazon.com for "TTL" or "CMOS" and you'll see lots of introductory books to electronic logic devices.

Don Lancasters "TTL Cookbook" and "CMOS Cookbook" are good for getting started, and the Texas Instruments "TTL Data Book" lists many hundreds of ICs with descriptions of what they do.

David

PLJack

David nailed it. All great books.

I can personally recommend the "TTL Cookbook" and the Texas Instruments "TTL Data Book".
Both worth the time and money.

I love Google but you really can't beat a book for this kind of thing.
Besides. I don't think Google comes in a ring binder format.

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Post Edited (PLJack) : 7/18/2005 10:15:06 AM GMT

Paul Baker

I have a copy of Motorola's·LS·Series·Data book, it is much smaller than the Cookbook. It doesn't contain all the specs of every chip (and specs are only for the LS series of TTL), but contains the nessesary information for the average designer.

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Forrest

Lancaster's TTL cookbook was published in 1974 and his CMOS cookbook was published in 1988. Isn't there something more recent - I'm pretty sure there have been new chips introduced in the past 20-30 years.

SteveW

There havn't been that many _new_ devices. There've been new families (voltages / speeds), and there have been denser (74x16xxx) and singleton devices, but an AND gate is still pretty much an AND gate, same for 7474s and all teh other classics. The new devices that have been released are generally rather niche-y and unavailable...
TI's Logic pocketbook is a handy roundup of their parts.
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/getliterature.tsp?baseLiteratureNumber=scyd013&fileType=pdf
(Even with vast FPGAs on most of my current boards, there's often a '74 or some other titchy logic doing something important at boot time - TTL may be dead, but discrete logic just won't go away...)

Steve