Education 16.5 Microprocessor Programming adminJan 30, 2020 The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular microprocessor chip possesses is specific to that model of...
Education 16.4 Microprocessors adminJan 30, 2020 Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von Neumann postulated that for a computing device to be...
Education 16.3 Finite-state Machine adminJan 30, 2020 Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather simple device or process into something...
Education 16.2 Look-up Tables adminJan 30, 2020 Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we know that it is possible to store binary data...
Education 16.1 A Binary Adder adminJan 30, 2020 Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits together. Such a device is known as a half-adder,...
Education 15.6 Memory with moving parts: Drives adminJan 30, 2020 The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was that of the punched paper card. Joseph Marie...
Education 15.5 Read-Only Memory (ROM) adminJan 30, 2020 Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM circuits, except that the “latching” mechanism...
Education 15.4 Historical, Nonmechanical Memory Technologies adminJan 30, 2020 Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A delay line is any kind of device which delays the...
Education 15.3 Modern Nonmechanical Memory adminJan 30, 2020 Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage devices. To start, I want to explore some of the...
Education 15.2 Digital Memory Terms and Concepts adminJan 30, 2020 When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not only need some way to store and retrieve it, but...
Education 15.1 Why digital? adminJan 30, 2020 Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory technology, I intend to make this chapter unique...
Education 14.8 Practical considerations – Digital Communication adminJan 30, 2020 A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the monitoring and control of real-life processes must...
Education 14.7 Network Protocols adminJan 30, 2020 Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and voltage levels, connector pinouts, cabling, topology,...
Education 14.6 Network Topology adminJan 30, 2020 If we want to connect two digital devices with a network, we would have a kind of network known as...
Education 14.5 Optical Data Communication adminJan 30, 2020 A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via electric voltage signals is to use optical (light)...