Digital Systems: Principles and Applications – Ronald Tocci – 8th Edition

Chapter 1. A look at the "digital future" has been updated.
Chapter 2. This chapter now covers new and improved methods for using cal- culators to perform conversions between number systems.
Chapter 3. IEEE standard symbol coverage has been reduced.
Chapter 4. (1) Material on K-mapping, including a complete example using "don't cares," has been added.
Chapter 5. Logic circuits with feedback, including SR and D latches, are imple- mented using PLDs
Chapter 6. A section is added that demonstrates a 4-bit full adder implemented on a PLD.
Chapter 7. (1) Material on the 74178 (obsolete) has been deleted, and coverage of the 74165 and 74174 ICs has been expanded.
Chapter 8. Several incremental revisions and changes in technology have mo- tivated a substantial rearrangement of topics
Chapter 9. This chapter describes color LCD displays and technology used in laptop computer screens.
Chapter 10. The section on sampling has been expanded to address the issue of minimum sample rate (Nyquist) and signal aliasing.
Chapter 11. All PLD material has been edited or moved to other areas of the text,
Chapter 12. This chapter has been rewritten to begin with an overview of the internal hardware of simple PLDs.