Introduction to Digital Design

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SPECIFICATION OF COMBINATIONAL SYSTEMS

3. COMBINATIONAL ICs: CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES

4. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF GATE NETWORKS

5. DESIGN OF COMBINATIONAL SYSTEMS: TWO-LEVEL GATE NETWORKS

6. DESIGN OF COMBINATIONAL SYSTEMS: MULTI-LEVEL GATE NETWORKS

7. SPECIFICATION OF SEQUENTIAL SYSTEMS

8. SEQUENTIAL NETWORKS

9. STANDARD COMBINATIONAL MODULES

10. ARITHMETIC COMBINATIONAL MODULES AND NETWORKS

11. STANDARD SEQUENTIAL MODULES

12. PROGRAMMABLE MODULES

13. REGISTER-TRANSFER LEVEL (RTL) SYSTEMS

14. DATA AND CONTROL SUBSYSTEMS

15. SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MICROCOMPUTER

Appendix A BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 About digital systems 1

• What is a digital system?

• Why are digital systems important?

• When are digital systems used

• Combinational and sequential systems

1.2 Specification and implementation, analysis and design 6

• Structured analysis and design

• Levels of implementation

1.3 Computer-aided design tools 10

1.4 Further readings 11

2. SPECIFICATION OF COMBINATIONAL SYSTEMS

2.1 Combinational systems: definition and specification levels 12

2.2 High-level specification of combinational systems 14

2.3 Data representation and coding 16

• Representation of characters

• Representation of positive integers

2.4 Binary specification of combinational systems 21

• Switching functions

• Switching expressions

2.5 Examples of specifications 37

2.6 Specification using VHDL 39

2.7 Further readings 52

Exercises 52 TOP

3. COMBINATIONAL ICs: CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES

3.1 Representation of binary variables 60

3.2 Structure and operation of CMOS gates 62

n-type and p-type switches 62

NOT gate 63

NAND and NOR gates 64

AND and OR gates 65

Complex gates 65

Transmission gate, XOR gate, and 2-input multiplexer 67...