Taschenbuch Digitaltechnik

Digital technology increasingly shapes our living environment. By representing all values exclusively through the discrete values of 0 and 1, it provides an ideal foundation for the storage, processing, and transmission of information, as well as for the mass production of cost-effective and high-performance circuits.

Digital technology – as a complex and broad field of knowledge – has its roots in mathematics, specifically Boolean algebra. It became technically usable in the well-known manner today with the introduction of integrated microelectronic circuits, so a complete representation must encompass both aspects. Many application areas of digital technology, such as digital signal processing or digital communication technology, have become so independent that comprehensive representations are rarely found. However, the distributed representation typically complicates access to a highly complex field like digital technology.

The Digital Technology Handbook facilitates this access and provides information in a compact and interdisciplinary manner. It is aimed at students in colleges and universities, teachers and students in vocational and technical schools, engineers and technicians in practice, and anyone who needs a compact reference work on digital technology.

For the fourth edition, the handbook has been thoroughly updated and supplemented with new hardware architectures.