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logic analysers, frequency synthesizers, and synthesized function generators. Computer-instrument
interface standards and the concept of virtual instrumentation are also discussed at length towards the
end of the chapter.
As an extra resource, a companion website for my book contains lot of additional application
relevant information on digital devices and integrated circuits. The information on this website includes
numerical and functional indices of digital integrated circuits belonging to different logic families,
pin connection diagrams and functional tables of different categories of general purpose digital
integrated circuits and application relevant information on microprocessors, peripheral devices and
microcontrollers. Please go to URL http://www.wiley.com/go/maini_digital.
The motivation to write this book and the selection of topics to be covered were driven mainly by
the absence a book, which, in one volume, covers all the important aspects of digital technology. A
large number of books in print on the subject cover all the routine topics of digital electronics in a
conventional way with total disregard to the needs of application engineers and professionals. As the
author, I have made an honest attempt to cover the subject in entirety by including comprehensive
treatment of newer topics that are either ignored or inadequately covered in the available books on the
subject of digital electronics. This is done keeping in view the changed requirements of my intended
audience, which includes undergraduate and graduate level students, R&D scientists, professionals and
application engineers.
Anil K. Maini