For courses in Logic and Computer design.

Understanding Logic and Computer Design for All Audiences

Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is a thoroughly up-to-date text that makes logic design, digital system design, and computer design available to readers of all levels. The Fifth Edition brings this widely recognized source to modern standards by ensuring that all information is relevant and contemporary. The material focuses on industry trends and successfully bridges the gap between the much higher levels of abstraction people in the field must work with today than in the past.

Broadly covering logic and computer design, Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is a flexibly organized source material that allows instructors to tailor its use to a wide range of audiences.

1. Digital Systems and Information

1-1 Information Representation

1-2 Abstraction Layers in Computer Systems Design

1-3 Number Systems

1-4 Arithmetic Operations

1-5 Decimal Codes

1-6 Alphanumeric Codes

1-7 Gray Codes

1-8 Chapter Summary

2. Combinational Logic Circuits

2-1 Binary Logic and Gates

2-2 Boolean Algebra

2-3 Standard Forms

2-4 Two-Level Circuit Optimization

2-5 Map Manipulation

2-6 Exclusive-OR Operator and Gates

2-7 Gate Propagation Delay

2-8 Hardware Description Languages Overview

2-9 HDL Representations—VHDL

2-10 HDL Represenations—Verilog

2-11 Chapter Summary

3. Combinational Logic Design

3-1 Beginning Hierarchical Design

3-2 Technology Mapping

3-3 Combinational Functional Blocks

3-4 Rudimentary Logic Functions

3-5 Decoding

3-6 Encoding

3-7 Selecting

3-8 Iterative Combinational Circuits

3-9 Binary Adders

3-10 Binary Subtraction

3-11 Binary Adder-Subtractors

3-12 Other Arithmetic Functions

3-13 Chapter Summary

4. Sequential Circuits

4-1 Sequential Circuit Definitions

4-2 Latches

4-3 Flip-Flops

4-4 Sequential Circuit Analysis

4-5 Sequential Circuit Design

4-6 State-machine Diagrams and Applications

4-7 HDL Representation for Sequential Circuits—VHDL

4-8 HDL Representation for Sequential Circuits—Verilog

4-9 Flip-Flop Timing

4-10 Sequential Circuit Timing

4-11 Asynchronous Interactions

4-12 Synchronization and Metastability

4-13 Synchronous Circuit Pitfalls

4-14 Chapter Summary

5. Digital Hardware Implementation

5-1 The Design Space

5-2 Programmable Implementation Technologies

5-3 Chapter Summary

6. Registers and Register Transfers

6-1 Registers and Load Enable

6-2 Register Transfers

6-3 Register Transfer Operations

6-4 Register Transfers in VHDL and Verilog

6-5 Microoperations

6-6 Microoperations on a Single Register

6-7 Register-Cell Design

6-8 Multiplexer and Bus-Baed Transfers for Multiple Registers

6-9 Serial Transfer and Microoperations

6-10 Control of Register Transfers

6-11 HDL Representation for Shift Registers and Counters—VHDL

6-12 HDL Representation for Shift Registers and Counters—Verilog

6-13 Microprogrammed Control

6-15 Chapter Summary

7. Memory Basics

7-1 Memory Definitions

7-2 Random-Access Memory

7-3 SRAM Integrated Circuits

7-4 Array of SRAM ICs

7-5 DRAM ICs

7-6 DRAM Types

7-7 Arrays of Dynamic RAM ICs

7-8 Chapter Summary

8. Computer Design Basics

8-1  Computer Design Basics

8-2 Datapaths

8-3 The Arithmetic/Logic Unit

8-4 The Shifter

8-5 Datapath Representation

8-6 The Control Word

8-7 A Simple Computer Architecture

8-8 Single-Cycle Hardwired Control

8-9 Multiple-Cycle Hardwired Control

8-10 Chapter Summary

9. Instruction Set Architecture

9-1 Computer Architecture Concepts

9-2 Operand Addressing

9-3 Addressing Modes

9-4 Instruction Set Architectures

9-5 Data-Transfer Instructions

9-6 Data-Manipulation Instructions

9-7 Floating-Point Computations

9-8 Program Control Instructions

9-9 Program Interrupt

9-10 Chapter Summary

10. RISC and CISC Processors

10-1 Pipelined Datapath

10-2 Pipelined Control

10-3 The Reduced Instruction Set Computer

10-4 The Complex Instruction Set Computer

10-5 More on Design

10-6 Chapter Summary

11. Input-Output and Communication

11-1 Computer I/O

11-2 Sample Peripherals

11-3 I/O Interfaces

11-4 Serial Communication

11-5 Modes of Transfer

11-6 Priority Interrupt

11-7 Direct Memory Access

11-8 Chapter Summary

12. Memory Systems

12-1 Memory Hierarchy

12-2 Locality of Reference

12-3 Cache Memory

12-4 Virtual Memory

12-5 Chapter Summary