1.3: Reading this Text

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This textbook is intended for multiple audiences. Chapter 2 of this text is an overview of Boolean algebra and included largely for when the text is used in classes covering digital circuit design. Chapter 2 is not necessary to the understanding of the rest of the book, and can be safely skipped by someone using this text as a lab manual. I would recommend that a hobbyist using this book for bread board project skip Chapter 2 altogether.

Chapter 11 is an implementation of a CPU in Logisim, and shows how a CPU can be designed using only wires, gates, and the ICs that are covered in this text. The implementation is a real CPU which can be programmed, producing input and output. However even this simple CPU is too complex to implement in a Breadboard.

Chapters 3 to 10 are the chapters which implement the projects. These chapters are the important chapters for someone interested in implementing the ICs used in a CPU.