[sdiy] 4069 VCO to get started? My answer

[Nicolai Czempin]

Pat Kammerer wrote:

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>From: Nicolai Czempin <nicolai.czempin at alcatel.de>
>Subject: [sdiy] 4069 VCO to get started? My answer
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>>Take any introductory electronics book, and they
>>will start, with the basic components, with both CMOS and digital issues
>>being found in the late chapters if at all.
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>This may be a mistake.  Some Mimms books start with CMOS/TTL and then move
>on to linear/analog.  Even the 555 is "digital", and it's very basic in many
>books.
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Okay, perhaps you're right. I should probably get a "Mimms book". All 
the other ones I have (all German, except for Horowitz/Hill) start with 
Resistors, Diodes and Capacitors, move on to Transistors, and very late 
if at all (possible in the second volume) do they cover digital.
In any case, I prefer it this way. I want to really understand what's 
going on, even if it takes a bit longer (my guess is that it would be 
much easier for me to work my way down from microcontrollers to gates, 
and then further...)

mfg Nicolai