Description this best-selling text, recognized as the authority ondigital fundamentals for over 30 years, provides thorough, currentcoverage from basic concepts to advanced topics. Coverage includesprogrammable logic, digital signal processing, and integratedcircuit theories. Celebrated for its clear writing style andnumerous examples, exercises, and problems, this text emphasizesapplications and troubleshooting to assist readers in developingthe practical skills that will be needed in their professionalcareers. Core fundamentals are presented without being intermingled with advanced or peripheral topics chapter 12 provides optional coverage of ic technology (inside-the-chip circuitry) introduction and objectives are at the beginning of each section within a chapter check up exercises conclude each section of a chapter each worked example has a related problem summaries at the end of each chapter aid in recapitulation. Multiple-choice self-test at the end of each chapter coverage of cmos and bipolar ic technologies the system application activities (formerly digital system applications) have been thoroughly revised. More end-of-chapter problems a true/false quiz at the end of every chapter boolean simplification coverage now includes the quine-mcclusky method in an appendix coverage of the cyclic redundancy code (crc) introduction to multi-core processors introductory concepts number systems, operations, and codes logic gates boolean algebra and logic simplification combinational logic analysis functions of combinational logic latches and flip-flops counters shift registers memory and storage programmable logic and software integrated circuit technologies appendix a: karnaugh map pos minimization appendix b: the quine-mccluskey method answers to odd-numbered problems glossary index