Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics, Components and Processes - Softcover

Maxfield, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878707221 ISBN 13: 9781878707222

Publisher: LLH Technology Publishing,US, 1995

Synopsis

From reviews of the first edition:

"If you want to be reminded of the joy of electronics, take a look at Clive (Max) Maxfield's book Bebop to the Boolean Boogie." --Computer Design

"Lives up to its title as a useful and entertaining technical guide....well-suited for students, technical writers, technicians, and sales and marketing people." --Electronic Design

"Writing a book like this one takes audacity! ... Maxfield writes lucidly on a variety of complex topics without 'writing down' to his audience." --EDN

"A highly readable, well-illustrated guided tour through basic electronics." -Science Books & Films

"Extremely readable and easy to understand, you'll wonder how people learned about this stuff before this book came along." --New Book Bulletin, Computer Literacy Bookshops

* The difference between the analog and digital worlds.

* What logic gates are and how to make them from transistors.

About this title

Review

"Extremely readable and easy to understand, you'll wonder how people learned about this stuff before this book came along."
- New Book Bulletin, Computer Literacy Bookshops

"A highly readable, well-illustrated guided tour through basic electronics."
- Science Books & Films

"There's something for anyone involved in anyway in electronics, whether as a mild interest or as a serious technician. . . . The book is an excellent and invaluable resource for anyone who's ever held a soldering iron and wants to know what makes current electronics technology tick, and where it's going in the future."
- Everyday with Practical Electronics (U.K.)

"This book is better than most college courses for learning electronics basics."
- The Daily Spectrum

"Maxfield shows the best of his style, mixing deep knowledge of technical history with a great sense of humor and a strong passion for finding some (almost) unbelievable nuggets of trivia. On the whole, this is a book that deserves the acclaim it received since the very first edition and it should be on the desk of everybody who is interested in digital electronics design."
- Electronics World, January 2006

From the Author

Musical socks, Virtual Logic, ... Nanotechnology
Bebop to the Boolean Boogie rampages through digital electronics, starting with "What is an atom?" and ending with virtual logic, holographic optical interconnects, and nanotechnology. Along the way we also discover the secrets behind those musical socks that your aunts give you for Christmas that play an immediately annoying tune when you squeeze them -- the socks, not the aunts).

The first half of the book introduces fundamental concepts, while the second half considers the way in which components are made, including integrated circuits, hybrids, multichip modules, programmable logic and memory devices, and circuit boards.

We close with an introduction to a smorgasbord of alternative and future technologies, followed by a wealth of appendices (including a recipe for seafood gumbo) and a huge glossary and index.

Bebop is for anyone who is interested in learning more about electronics, from absolute beginners to experianced engineers.

Edition details

• Publisher: LLH Technology Publishing,US
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1878707221
• ISBN 13: 9781878707222
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 471