Название: Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design, 4th Edition
Автор: Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic
Издательство: McGraw Hill LLC
Год: 2023
Страниц: 833
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.6 MB

Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design is intended for an introductory course in digital logic design, which is a basic course in most electrical and computer engineering programs. A successful designer of digital logic circuits needs a good understanding of the classical methods of logic design and a firm grasp of the modern design approach that relies on computer-aided design (CAD) tools. The main goals of this book are to teach students the fundamental concepts of classical manual digital design and to illustrate clearly the way in which digital circuits are designed today, using CAD tools.

This book is intended for an introductory course in digital logic design, which is a basic course in most electrical and computer engineering programs. A successful designer of digital logic circuits needs a good understanding of the classical methods of logic design and a firm grasp of the modern design approach that relies on computer-aided design (CAD) tools.

The main goals of this book are (1) to teach students the fundamental concepts of classical manual digital design and (2) illustrate clearly the way in which digital circuits are designed today, using CAD tools. Even though current modern designers very rarely use manual techniques, our motivation for teaching such techniques is to give students an intuitive feeling for how digital circuits operate. The manual techniques also provide an illustration of the types of manipulations performed by CAD tools, giving students an appreciation of the benefits provided by design automation. Throughout the book, basic concepts are introduced by way of simple design examples, which we perform using both manual techniques and modern CAD-tool-based methods. After basic concepts are established, more complex examples are provided using the CAD tools. Thus, to illustrate how digital design is presently carried out in practice, our emphasis is on modern design methodology.

This book discusses modern digital circuit implementation technologies. The emphasis is placed on programmable logic devices (PLDs), which is the most appropriate technology for use in a textbook for two reasons. First, PLDs are widely used in practice and are suitable for almost all types of digital circuit designs. In fact, students are more likely to be involved in PLD-based designs at some point in their careers than in any other technology. Second, circuits are implemented in PLDs by end-user programming. Therefore, students can be provided with the opportunity, in a laboratory setting, to implement this book’s design examples in actual chips. Students can also simulate the behavior of their designed circuits on their own computers. We use the two most popular types of PLDs for targeting of designs: complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

We emphasize the use of a hardware description language (HDL) in specifying the logic circuits, because an HDL-based approach is the most efficient design method to use in practice. We describe in detail the IEEE Standard VHDL language and use it extensively in examples.