Logic & Computer Design Fundamentals, 5th edition

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 students 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 students 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 student audiences.

Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals provides the following features to facilitate learning:

UPDATED! This fifth edition is highly up-to-date with all changing technology and trends in the logic and computer design industry, allowing a smooth transition to the subject matter’s much higher level of abstraction.

REVISED! Well-structured chapter reorganization allows professors to flexibly tailor the degree of technology coverage to suit both electrical and computer engineering as well as computer science students.

• REVISED! Chapters 1-4 focus on logic design:

• REVISED! Chapter 1 discusses the layer of abstraction in computing systems and their role in digital design, as well as overviews the digital design process.

• NEW! Material on alphanumeric codes for internalization.
• REVISED! Chapter 2 introduces new information much earlier than in previous editions, such as:
  • REVISED! Hardware Description Languages (HDL) accompanied by schematics and diagrams that make the information visually appealing and emphasize its importance.
  • Propagation Delay, a first-order design constraint in digital systems.
• REVISED! Chapters 3 and 4 have been combined to create a comprehensive unit on commonly occurring logic functional blocks with HDL models presented throughout the chapter. The concept of hierarchical design is also introduced in this chapter.
• REVISED! Chapter 4 discusses sequential circuits, as well as description of design processes from previous editions’ chapter 5 and sequential circuit timing, synchronization of inputs, and metastability from previous editions’ chapter 6.
• REVISED! Chapters 5-7 focus on digital systems design:
  • REVISED! Chapter 5 introduces topics related to the implementation of digital hardware and has absorbed much of the information from previous editions’ chapter 6.
    • NEW! Brief discussion of the effect of testing and verification of design cost.
    • REVISED! Expanded descriptions of FPGAs are employed with simple architecture.
  • REVISED! Chapter 6 now includes material on high-impedance buffers in the previous editions’ chapter 9.
• REVISED! Chapters 8-21 focusing on computer design have been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the industry since the previous edition.
  • NEW! Chapter 9 discusses how procedure call and return instructions can be used to implement function calls in high level languages.

Strong connections to real-word technology allow students to apply major concepts to source material.

• Discusses SRAM, DRAM, and synchronous DRAM technologies.
• Provides and develops solid digital system design fundamentals with a gradual, bottom-up approach.

Companion Website provides a wealth of supplementary information students can reference to throughout the text, including:

• 12 reading supplements consisting of new material and deleted material from prior editions
• Code for all VHDL and Verilog examples
• 25% of the problem solutions,
• Projection originals for all figures and major tables.

UPDATED! This fifth edition is highly up-to-date with all changing technology and trends in the logic and computer design industry, allowing a smooth transition to the subject matter’s much higher level of abstraction.

REVISED! Well-structured chapter reorganization allows professors to flexibly tailor the degree of technology coverage to suit both electrical and computer engineering as well as computer science students.

• REVISED! Chapters 1-4 focus on logic design:

• REVISED! Chapter 1 discusses the layer of abstraction in computing systems and their role in digital design, as well as overviews the digital design process.

• Material on alphanumeric codes for internalization.
• REVISED! Chapter 2 introduces new information much earlier than in previous editions, such as:
• REVISED! Hardware Description Languages (HDL) accompanied by schematics and diagrams that make the information visually appealing and emphasize its importance.
• Propagation Delay, a first-order design constraint in digital systems.
• REVISED! Chapters 3 and 4 have been combined to create a comprehensive unit on commonly occurring logic functional blocks with HDL models presented throughout the chapter. The concept of hierarchical design is also introduced in this chapter.
• REVISED! Chapter 4 discusses sequential circuits, as well as description of design processes from previous editions’ chapter 5 and sequential circuit timing, synchronization of inputs, and metastability from previous editions’ chapter 6.
• REVISED! Chapters 5-7 focus on digital systems design:
• REVISED! Chapter 5 introduces topics related to the implementation of digital hardware and has absorbed much of the information from previous editions’ chapter 6.
• Brief discussion of the effect of testing and verification of design cost.
• REVISED! Expanded descriptions of FPGAs are employed with simple architecture.
• REVISED! Chapter 6 now includes material on high-impedance buffers in the previous editions’ chapter 9.
• REVISED! Chapters 8-21 focusing on computer design have been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the industry since the previous edition.

Chapter 9 discusses how procedure call and return instructions can be used to implement function calls in high level languages.