IC guides/beginner projects

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Are there any books/sites available with guides/projects regarding ICs?
The 3 electronics books i already have, only covers them slightly, and don't include any examples.

The only chip i ever got working was a 555 timer chip, which made me want to learn more. But from the info i got from my books, i have a hard time figuring out which ICs does what, and basically how to wire them up to do what i want.

Id really appreciate any help you may be able to give. And sorry for this slightly audio unrelated post.
 
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Andersj:
Are there any books/sites available with guides/projects regarding ICs?""

yes,ic manufacturers sites/and hardcopydata will have enough
information to get you started, pay attention to applications notes
/data as these provide easy to use information

third party ic application books are also a good source of info these are usually available from technical publishers

regards
john
 
Kinda hard for me to say which IC's im interested in. I did look at some of the ic manufactures sites, but rather hard to get any info when you don't know exactly what your looking for.

I was thinking something in the line of easy beginner projects, to get me started.

Eg. You push a button which wires up to an IC with 3 or 4 different states, it could be set to turn 3-4 leds on and off. (from what i have read, i think i need a 7400 NAND ic?)

Ill try to search a bit more after some books regarding the subject.
 
to get an idea of what you d like to do is get a book on
basic electronics which covers a wide spectrum of subjects
then once you know little about the subject youre interested in
buy a book of that subject

i think your problem is you dont quite know what you really
want to do ics cover a vast amount of applications possibilities

regards
 
AndersJ said:
I was thinking something in the line of easy beginner projects, to get me started.

Eg. You push a button which wires up to an IC with 3 or 4 different states, it could be set to turn 3-4 leds on and off. (from what i have read, i think i need a 7400 NAND ic?)
I'll recommend you to do something you actually want to do (but don't know how).

A not so hard project is a CMOY headphone amp. Buy yourself some Vero board and start soldering. It's very rewarding because you can listen to the result. Power source is 2 pcs. 9 volts batteries.

If you want to play with gates and such you can have some for free. I have deep junk drawers. The IC's is called CMOS4xxx, and suitable may be 4001, 4011, 4071, 4081 etc. Personally I'll recommend that you start with a couple of LED's, resistors, transistors, caps and built something "bigger".
 
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