CMOS Cookbook

by Donald E. Lancaster, Howard M. Berlin

The CMOS Cookbook contains all you need to know to understand and successfully use CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) integrated circuits. Written in a "cookbook" format that requires little math, this practical, user-oriented book covers all the basics for working with digital logic and many of its end appilations.Whether you're a newcomver to logic and electronics or a senior design engineer, you'll find CMOS Cookbook and its examples helpful as a self-learning guide, a reference handbook, a project-idea book, or a text for teaching others digital logic at the high school through university levels.In the pages of this revised edition, you'll *What CMOS is, who makes it, and how the basic transistors, inverters, and logic and transmission gates work*CMOS usage rules, power-suppy examples, and information on breadboards, state testing, tools, and interfacing*Discussions of the latest CMOS devices and sub-families, including the 74C, 74HC, and 74HCT series that streamline TTL and CMOS interfacing*An in-depth look at multivibrators - including astable, monostable, and bistable - and linear techniques*Clocked-logic designs and the extensive applications of JK and D-type flip-flops*A helpful appendix featuring a TTL-to-CMOS conversion chart

528 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Adam Mokan · Rating 5 out of 5]

finally grabbed a new copy of this (haven't had access to a copy in about 15 years) and it's just like I remembered. Yeah, you can easily go on google and grab pinouts for any chip in your bin, but there is something about the old Lancaster books that is just awesome in the sense that it's not highly academic and it helps sparks ideas and causes me to do the reverse of the google method - After glancing through a few pages, I find myself going to my parts bin to find a certain chip for an idea the book has sparked. Reminds me of the Forest Mims books, which are just as excellent if you are a seasoned electronics person or just getting started.

[Robert Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was well written, and targeted not just to engineers, but also to technicians and hobbyists. Unlike the vast majority of textbooks I've read, math isn't the focus of this book, in fact, there's hardly any. For instance, there's a brief description of what a time constant is, and how to calculate one, if that's your thing, but you're not beaten over the head with it. I cam away from this with ideas for projects I would like to try, and a reference for still others.

[Joshua Florian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still the most useful reference I have.