Part I. Introduction: 1. The digital abstraction; 2. The practice of digital system design; Part II. Combinational Logic: 3. Boolean algebra; 4. CMOS logic circuits; 5. Delay and power of CMOS circuits; 6. Combinational logic design; 7. Verilog descriptions of combinational logic; 8. Combinational building blocks; 9. Combinational examples; Part III. Arithmetic Circuits: 10. Arithmetic circuits; 11. Fixed- and floating-point numbers; 12. Fast arithmetic circuits; 13. Arithmetic examples; Part IV. Synchronous Sequential Logic: 14. Sequential logic; 15. Timing constraints; 16. Datapath sequential logic; 17. Factoring finite-state machines; 18. Microcode; 19. Sequential examples; Part V. Practical Design: 20. Verification and test; Part VI. System Design: 21. System-level design; 22. Interface and system-level timing; 23. Pipelines; 24. Interconnect; 25. Memory systems; Part VII. Asynchronous Logic: 26. Asynchronous sequential circuits; 27. Flip-flops; 28. Metastability and synchronization failure; 29. Synchronizer design; Appendix A. Verilog coding style; References; Index of Verilog modules; Subject index.
This book provides students with a system-level perspective and the tools they need to analyze and design complete digital systems using Verilog.
William James Dally is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, California and Chief Scientist at NVIDIA Corporation. He and his group have developed system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing and synchronization technology that can be found in most large parallel computers today. He has many years of experience working in industry and academia, previously holding positions at Bell Labs, Caltech and MIT and consulting for Digital Equipment, Cray Research and Intel. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous honors including the ACM Eckert–Mauchly Award, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award and the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award. He has published over 200 papers in these areas, holds over 75 issued patents and is an author of the textbooks Digital Systems Engineering and Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks. R. Curtis Harting is a PhD candidate at Stanford University. He graduated with honors in 2007 from Duke University with a BSE, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He received his MS in 2009 from Stanford University. His primary research interest is in computer architecture, focusing on parallel, high-performance and energy-efficient design.
'Dally and Harting blend circuit and architecture design in a clear
and constructive manner on the basis of their exceptional
experience in digital design. Students will discover a modern and
effective way to understand the fundamental underpinning of digital
design, by being exposed to the different abstraction levels and
views of computing systems.' Giovanni De Micheli, École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
'Bill and Curt have combined decades of academic and industry
experience to produce a textbook that teaches digital system design
from a very practical perspective without sacrificing the
theoretical understanding needed to train tomorrow's engineers.
Their approach pushes students to understand not just what they are
designing but also what they are building. By presenting key
advanced topics, such as synthesis, delay and logical effort, and
synchronization, at the introductory level, this book is in the
rare position of providing both practical advice and deep
understanding. In doing so, this book will prepare students well
even as technology, tools, and techniques change in the future.'
David Black-Schaffer, Uppsala University
'Everything you would expect from a book on digital design from
[Professor] Dally. Decades of practical experience are distilled to
provide the tools necessary to design and compose complete digital
systems. A clear and well written text that covers the basics and
system-level issues equally well. An ideal starting point for the
microprocessor and SoC designers of the future!' Robert Mullins,
University of Cambridge and the Raspberry Pi Foundation
'This textbook sets a new standard for how digital system design is
taught to undergraduates. The practical approach and concrete
examples [provide] a solid foundation for anyone who wants to
understand or design modern complex digital systems.' Steve
Keckler, University of Texas, Austin
'This book not only teaches how to do digital design, but more
importantly shows how to do good design. It stresses the importance
of modularization with clean interfaces, and the importance of
producing digital artifacts that not only meet their
specifications, but which can also be easily understood by others.
It uses an aptly chosen set of examples and the Verilog code used
to implement them … It includes a section on the design of
asynchronous logic, a topic that is likely to become increasingly
important as energy consumption becomes a primary concern in
digital systems … The final appendix on Verilog coding style is
particularly useful. This book will be valuable not only to
students, but to practitioners in the area. I recommend it highly.'
Chuck Thacker, Microsoft
'A terrific book with a terrific point of view of systems.
Everything interesting - and awful - that happens in digital design
happens because engineers must integrate ideas from bits to blocks,
from signals to CPUs. The book does a great job of focusing on the
important stuff, moving from foundations to systems, with the right
amount of HDL (Verilog) focus to make everything practical and
relevant.' Rob A. Rutenbar, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
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