Book review of FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS By A. ANAND KUMAR for GATE Digital Electronics

 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS  By A. ANAND KUMAR (3rd Edition)  Buy on Amazon 

Topic and Chapter Mapping According to GATE Syllabus (*)

1.  Basics of number systems:  Chapter 2 
2. Combinational logic circuits, minimization of Boolean functions:  Chapter 3 to 7 
3. IC families: TTL and CMOS:  Chapter 16 
4. Flip-flops: Chapter 10 
5. shift registers: Chapter 11 
6. Timers and counters: Chapter 12 
7. analog-to-digital (successive approximation, integrating, flash and sigma-delta) and digital-to-analog converters (weighted R, R-2R ladder and current steering logic).: Chapter 17 
8. Characteristics of ADC and DAC (resolution, quantization, significant bits, conversion/settling time);   Chapter 17 
9. Arithmetic circuits, comparators: Chapter 7 
10. Schmitt trigger, multi-vibrators:  Chapter 19 
11. memory:  Chapter 18
12. sequential circuits:   Chapter 10 to 12

 Guideline for studying digital electronics (DE)

• First, read syllabus once. 
• Solve questions from the reference book, with objective questions.  (very Imp)
• Solved previous year questions of DE. 
• Difficulty in theory, you can refer NPTEL notes  by Prof.S.Srinivasan.