Digital Circuit Design for Computer Science Students An Introductory Textbook

Digital Circuit Design for Computer Science Students An Introductory Textbook / by Niklaus Wirth.

This textbook provides a thorough and systematic introduction to designing digital circuits. The author is the leading programming language designer of our time and in this book, based on a course for 2nd-year students at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, he aims to close the gap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wirth, Niklaus (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Edition:1st ed. 1995.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Electronic circuits.
Logic design.
Electronics.
Microelectronics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Transistors and Gates
  • 1.1. Gates with Bipolar Transistors
  • 1.2. Gates with Field Effect Transistors
  • 1.3. Electrical Characteristics of Gates
  • 2. Combinational Circuits
  • 2.1. Boolean Algebra
  • 2.2. Graphical Notations
  • 2.3. Circuit Simplification
  • 2.4. The Decoder or Demultiplexer
  • 2.5. The Multiplexer
  • 2.6. The Adder
  • 2.7. The Adder with Fast Carry Generation
  • 2.8. The Multiplier
  • 2.9. The Read-Only Memory (ROM)
  • 2.10. The Combinational PLD
  • 2.11. The Programmable Gate Array
  • 2.12. Dynamic Behaviour of Combinational Circuits
  • 3. Latches and Registers
  • 3.1. The SR-Latch
  • 3.2. The D-Latch
  • 3.3. The D-Register
  • 3.4. The JK Register
  • 4. Synchronous, Sequential Circuits
  • 4.1. The State Machine
  • 4.2. The Shift Register
  • 4.3. The Synchronous Binary Counter
  • 4.4. A Design Methodology for State Machines
  • 4.5. The PLD and the FPGA with Registers
  • 4.6. Timing and Practical Considerations
  • 5. Bus Systems
  • 5.1. The Concept of a Bus
  • 5.2. The Open-Collector Circuit
  • 5.3. The Tri-state Gate
  • 6. Memories
  • 6.1. Static Memories
  • 6.2. Dynamic Memories
  • 6.3. Dual-Port Memories
  • 7. Formal Description of Synchronous Circuits
  • 7.1. Motivation
  • 7.2. Lola: A Formal Notation for Synchronous Circuits
  • 7.3. Examples of Textual Circuit Descriptions
  • 8. Design of an Elementary Computer
  • 8.1. The Design of von Neumann
  • 8.2. Choice of a Specific Architecture
  • 8.3. The Arithmetic-Logic Unit (ALU)
  • 8.4. The Control Unit
  • 8.5. Phase Control and Instruction Decoding
  • 8.6. An Implementation Using Standard Parts
  • 8.7. Interrupts
  • 9. Multiplication and Division
  • 9.1. Multiplication of Natural Numbers
  • 9.2. Division of Natural Numbers
  • 9.3. Extending the ALU by a Multiplier-Quotient Register
  • 10. Design of a Computer Based on a Microprocessor
  • 11. Interfaces Between Asynchronous Units
  • 11.1. The Handshake Protocol
  • 11.2. Processor-Bus Interfaces
  • 11.3. Adding an I/O Interface to the Hercules Computer
  • 12. Serial Data Transmission
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Synchronous Transmission
  • 12.3. Asynchronous Transmission
  • 12.4. A Buffered Transmitter and Receiver
  • Appendix 1: Implementations Based on the Programmable Gate Array AT6002
  • 1. The Laboratory
  • 2. The Structure of the Gate Array
  • 3. The FPGA Extension Board
  • 4. A Set of Design Examples
  • Appendix 2: Syntax of Lola
  • Selected Design Exercises.

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