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Digital Electronics

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  • Aug 2025

Overview

Authors:
  1. Gareth Monkman

    1. Electrical engineering, OTH-Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

  • covers all aspects of digital technology needed by first/second year university students
  • Reference to interesting historical developments
  • From the most basic digital circuitry to an example computer

Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Electrical Engineering (SLEE)

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About this book

This book introduces the basic digital components and devices, often with respect to historical events which led to these concepts, before combining them to make complete digital systems. The historical aspect is important in than many older devices were purely mechanical. This helps in understanding the basic concepts before embarking on analysis and application of modern semiconductor devices. The book covers all aspects of digital technology needed by first/second year university students. Basic devices and their combination from simple circuits to complete ALUs. Sequential concatenation of devices leads to counters, timers, registers and memory. Parallel to these subject, all mathematical aspects of Boolean algebra are covered. The book culminates in a fusion of the three main subjects resulting in the design of a basic CPU and the implementation of assembly language code. Throughout the book, reference is made to original historical devices and designs which have led (or in many cases, not) to the development of modern digital and computing systems.

Keywords

  • sequential logic
  • digital technology
  • processors
  • historical developments
  • combinational logic
  • binary maths
  • assembler

Authors and Affiliations

  • Electrical engineering, OTH-Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Gareth Monkman

About the author

Until his retirement in March 2022, Gareth Monkman BA., BSc., MSc., PhD was Professor for Robotics and Automation (Sensors and actuators) and director of the Mechatronics Research Unit at at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany. With over 200 publications in a diverse range of disciplines, Gareth Monkman has contributed significantly to the research community. He has been a member of the German Institute of Electrical Engineers (VDE) for over 25 years.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Electronics

  • Authors: Gareth Monkman

  • Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Electrical Engineering

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-69725-8Due: 17 August 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-69728-9Due: 17 August 2026

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-69726-5Due: 17 August 2025

  • Series ISSN: 1559-811X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1559-8128

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 154

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour

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