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Because no modern invention is purely analog anymore, the fourth edition dedicates serious space to logic gates, shift registers, and ADCs (Analog to Digital Converters). It explains how to read a datasheet for an Arduino or PIC microcontroller and how to protect your microcontroller from the high-voltage analog world (using optoisolators and level shifters). practical electronics for inventors fourth edition pdf