Lessons In Electric Circuits -- Volume IV | Digital

Appendix 1

Vim text editor -- Bram Moolenaar and others.

Xcircuit drafting program -- Tim Edwards.

SPICE circuit simulation program -- too many contributors to mention.

T_EX text processing system -- Donald Knuth and others.

Texinfo document formatting system -- Free Software Foundation.

L^AT_EX document formatting system -- Leslie Lamport and others.

Gimp image manipulation program -- too many contributors to mention.

Appreciation is also extended to Robert L. Boylestad, whose first edition of Introductory Circuit Analysis taught me more about electric circuits than any other book. Other important texts in my electronics studies include the 1939 edition of The "Radio" Handbook, Bernard Grob's second edition of Introduction to Electronics I, and Forrest Mims' original Engineer's Notebook.
Thanks to the staff of the Bellingham Antique Radio Museum, who were generous enough to let me terrorize their establishment with my camera and flash unit. Thanks as well to David Randolph of the Arlington Water Treatment facility in Arlington, Washington, for allowing me to take photographs of the equipment during a technical tour.
I wish to specifically thank Jeffrey Elkner and all those at Yorktown High School for being willing to host my book as part of their Open Book Project, and to make the first effort in contributing to its form and content. Thanks also to David Sweet and Ben Crowell for providing encouragement, constructive criticism, and a wider audience for the online version of this book.
Thanks to Michael Stutz for drafting his Design Science License, and to Richard Stallman for pioneering the concept of copyleft.
Last but certainly not least, many thanks to my parents and those teachers of mine who saw in me a desire to learn about electricity, and who kindled that flame into a passion for discovery and intellectual adventure. I honor you by helping others as you have helped me.

 

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• Dennis Crunkilton (October 2005) Typographical capitlization correction to sectiontitles, chapter 9.
• Jeff DeFreitas (March 2006)Improve appearance: replace “/" and ”/" Chapters: A1, A2.
• Paul Stokes, Program Chair, Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology, ITT Technical Institute, Houston, Tx (October 2004) Change (1001₂ = -8₁₀ + 7₁₀ = -1₁₀) to (1001₂ = -8₁₀ + 1₁₀ = -1₁₀), CH2, Binary Arithmetic
• Paul Stokes, Program Chair Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology, ITT Technical Institute, Houston, Tx (October 2004) Near "Fold up the corners" change Out=B'C' to Out=B'D', 14118.eps same change, Karnaugh Mapping
• The students of Bellingham Technical College's Instrumentation program, .
• Roger Hollingsworth (May 2003) Suggested a way to make the PLC motor control system fail-safe.
• Jan-Willem Rensman (May 2002) Suggested the inclusion of Schmitt triggers and gate hysteresis to the "Logic Gates" chapter.
• Don Stalkowski (June 2002) Technical help with PostScript-to-PDF file format conversion.
• Joseph Teichman (June 2002) Suggestion and technical help regarding use of PNG images instead of JPEG.
• MWalden@allaboutcircuits.com (June 2008) “Karnaugh Mapping”, Larger Karnaugh Maps, error: s/A'B'D/A'B'D'/.
• studiot@allaboutcircuits.com (March 2008) Ch 15, s/disk/disc/ in CDROM .
• Keith@allaboutcircuits.com (April 2008) Ch 12, s/sat/stage ; 04373.eps correction to caption.
• psomero@allaboutcircuits.com (April 2008) Ch 8, image 14122.eps replace 2nd instance A'B'C'D' with A'B'C'D .
• Ron Harrison (March 2009) Ch 13, image 04256.png, 04257.png Change text and images from 8-comparator to 7-comparator, s/16/15 s/256/255 .
• johndb@allaboutcircuits.com (June 2009) Ch 7, s/first on/first one .
• ruXx@allaboutcircuits.com (November 2009) Ch 7, s/if any only/if and only/ .
• tone_b@allaboutcircuits.com (January 2010) Ch 1, 9, s/Lets/Let's/ ; ch 9 too/also.

 

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