Contemporary Logic Design, 2nd edition

BASIC APPROACH

In the past ten years there has been a revolution in the practice of hardware design. Professionals now rely on CAD software, rapid prototyping, and programmable logic devices to streamline the design process. Contemporary Logic Design is the first text to address these changes – and to offer a truly modern introduction to logic design. Throughout, the author complements his presentation of logic design theory with discussions of current design technologies. Approximately 60% of the book presents new material; the remainder has been re-organized and partially re-written to correspond to the organizational changes.  

FEATURES

• Comprehensive coverage of programmable logic, including ROMs, PALs, and PLAs.

• Introduction to a wide range of software tools (including schematic capture, logic simulation and Boolean minimization) – Demonstrates how they fit into the hardware design process.

• Hands-on experimentation using software tools such as Aldec– Bolsters students’ understanding of practical design methods.

• New introduction – Now introduces the concepts of computation, encoding, sequencing, and instruction interpretation.

– Sets a better road map to the rest of the book and provide a rationale for its organization.  

– Includes many more case studies to help students see the design process in action, rather than discussing the design process in the abstract.

• Re-partitioning of material on combinational and sequential logic – the two major sections on combinational and sequential logic has been divided into a set of chapters.  They first cover fundamental concepts, then describe the principles of manipulating the logic into different forms, followed by a discussion of the optimizations and tools that are available, and conclude with the technologies available to build logic circuits.  

– Each  is capped by a set of comprehensive design case studies.

• More Emphasis on Programmable Logic.  

– New material on the latest programmable logic technologies for realizing digital designs with a focus on the underlying concepts.

• Hardware description languages – Given a more central role to reflect their total acceptance by the design community over the past 10 years.  

– Describes only the basics of one of the dominant languages (Verilog), discussing behavior as well as covering the basics of HDL simulation models.  

– Highlights the power of the languages in making designs more parameterizable and customizable and designers more efficient.

• New design case studies – Provides a large collection of examples where the intuitions and rules-of-thumb are discussed explicitly.  

– Many new and extensive design case studies  found throughout the text and in two large chapters (5& 10) focus on combinational and sequential logic.

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