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1. Introduction
1.1 Historical notes1.2 Analog versus digital
1.3 Bits, bytes, and words
1.4 Digital Circuits
1.5 Combinational c ircuits versus sequential circuits
1.6 Integrated circuits (ICs)
1.7 Printed circuit board (PCB)
1.8 Logi c values versus physical values
1.9 Non-programmable, progr ammable, and hardware-programmable
1.10 Binary waveforms
1.11 DC, AC, and transient responses
1.12 Progra mmable logic devices (PLDs)
1.13 Circuit synthesis and simu lation with VHDL
1.14 Circuit simulation with Spice
1.15 Gate-level versus transistor-level analysis

2. Binary representations
2.1 Binary code
2.2 Octal and hexadecimal codes
2.3 Gray code
2.4 BCD code
2.5 Codes for negative numbers
2.6 Floating-point representation
2.7 ASCII code
2.8 Unicode
2.9 Exercises