ECE 27000 Introduction to Digital System Design (24 Fall, 26 Spring)

An introduction to digital system design and hardware engineering, with an emphasis on practical design techniques and circuit implementation.

Course Coverage

This course cover typical content as the first course for the digital logic course. The general course schedule is listed below:

• Introduction
• Number Representation and Conversions
• Digital Signal Conversion and Transmission
• Logic Gates and Reconfigurable Logic Realization
• Boolean Algebra Computation and Simplification
• Combinational Logic Timing Analysis, XOR/XNOR, and Multiplexers
• Binary Arithmetic Combinational Logic Design
• Encoder and Decoder Design for Combinational Logic
• Latches and Flip-Flops
• Finite State Machine: Design, Analysis, and State Reduction
• Timing Analysis in Sequential Logic, and Counter, Shift Registers
• Multivibrators and the 555 Timers
• An Intense Introduction of Circuit Aspect of Digital Logic
• Memory Technology
• Conclusion

Reference books

• William Kleitz, Digital Electronics - A Practical Approach with VHDL, 9th edition, Prentice Hall, 2011
• Alan B Marcovitz, Introduction to logic design. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010.
• John Wakerly, Digital Design: Principles and Practices, current edition,
• M. Morris Mano, Michael Ciletti, Digital Design with An Introduction to the Verilog HDL, VHDL, and SystemVerilog, 2017.
• David Harris, Sarah Harris, Digital design and computer architecture ARM/RISC-V Edition, current edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2015/2021.
• Brent E. Nelson, Designing Digital Systems with SystemVerilog, (independently published), 2018 .
• William J. Dally (Chief Scientist at Nvidia) and R. Curtis Harting, Digital Design: A Systems Approach, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed., 2012.
• Bruce Reidenbach, Practical Digital Design: An Introduction to VHDL. Purdue University Press, 2022.
• Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolić, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective. Pearson Education, Incorporated, 2003.
• Neil HE Weste, and David Harris, CMOS VLSI design: a circuits and systems perspective. Pearson Education, 2015.
• Michael John Sebastian Smith, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs... the book) Addison-Wesley 1997
• Jan Rabaey, Low power design essentials. Springer Science & Business Media, 2009.
• Mohit Arora, The art of hardware architecture: Design methods and techniques for digital circuits. Springer Science & Business Media, 2011.
• Milind Parelkar, Demystifying the Digital Design Interview: The Missing Guide for Practical RTL and FPGA Interview Preparation
• Chipressian, Crack the hardware interview - from RTL designers' perspective : verification, implementation, synthesis & power
• Chipressian,Crack the hardware interview - from RTL designers' perspective : physical design & silicon debug
• Chipressian,Crack the hardware interview - from RTL designers' perspective : architecture and micro-architecture