On 5/9/2016 7:45 AM, scott wrote:
> It's not irrelevant if you actually plan to make anything work. All
> digital electronics (apart from in some basic simulator) is analog
> anyway :-) The book I've seen thrown about in many places is this one:
>
> http://artofelectronics.net/the-book/table-of-contents/
>

If the content lives up to the TOC. That looks like an excellent book.
If Andrew has not already done it. It would be good to breadboard the 
circuits as you do them.

> Chapter 10 is "digital electronics", but many of the preceding chapters
> are worth understanding before you start to make anything "digital". In
> the end, a digital "gate" is actually just transistors, so if you
> understand how transistors work you'll understand why a gate behaves the
> way it does.

A very good point. Most people think that a digital transistor is 
different from a transistor for an amplifier.


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Regards
     Stephen

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