DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN

By O. CARAK

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN PAGE MEDIUM SCALE INTEGRATION, MSI PAL--PROGRAMMABLE ARRAY LOGIC, GAL--GENERIC ARRAY LOGIC, EPROM--ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY, ADDER, COUNTER) 1,000S TO 100,000S OF GATES TYPICALLY, THE VENDOR PROVIDES INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF A DATA SHEET LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (LSI) 100,000S TO MILLIONS OF GATES TYPICALLY IMPLEMENTS COMPLEX FUNCTIONALITY PROCESSORS SUCH AS SPECIAL FUNCTION CONTROLLERS AND INTERFACE CHIPS VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF GATES TYPICALLY INCLUDES EXTENSIVE FUNCTIONALITY PROCESSORS SUCH AS INTEL’S PENTIUM ARE EXAMPLES OF VLSI DESIGN / ANALYSIS TOOLS WE WILL BE USING MANUAL PROCESSES FOR MOST OF THIS TEXT TO DESIGN/ANALYZE DIGITAL CIRCUITS IN ORDER TO GAIN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF LOGIC DESIGN THE FINAL SECTION OF THIS TEXT IS DEDICATED TO THE USE OF HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (HDL) TO AUTOMATE DESIGN, SIMULATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION PROCESS 1 BLOCK DIAGRAM A B INPUT OUTPUT A B