A First Course In Digital Systems Design

John Uyemura's innovative book provides a new paradigm for introducing digital Systems design to electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science students. The book includes discussions of all of the major fields that make up the subject, providing a complete background in digital logic design in a modern environment. The book includes chapters on VHDL, CMOS, VLSI, RISC architectures, and parallel computing, all integrated using the concept of design hierarchies. This book provides enough detail for a stand-alone text and prepares students for more advance courses in sequential logic design, VLSI, and computer architecture. Uyemura begins by presenting classical topics such as Boolean algebra and basic logic design to establish a foundation for the subject. The author then examines hardware considerations and links the materials to VHDL descriptions of digital systems. Logic design using MOSFETs is discussed and the ideas of integration and silicon VLSI are introduced to ensure that the reader gains a solid understanding of modern digital design. Design hierarchies are a natural approach for applying the fundamentals to more complex systems designs. The idea is used to develop the logic for units such as multiplexors and binary adders, which are combined with memory elements to introduce students to sequential logic networks. The discussion then evolves to a system-level study of reduced-instruction set computers as an example of a complex design. Advanced topics in computer architecture round out the treatment.