Preface
Features
Online Supplements
How to Use the Software Tools in a Course
Labs
Bugs
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 From Zero to One
1.1 TheGamePlan
1.2 The Art of Managing Complexity
1.2.1 Abstraction
1.2.2 Discipline
1.2.3 The Three-Y's
1.3 The Digital Abstraction
1.4 Number Systems
1.4.1 Decimal Numbers
1.4.2 Binary Numbers
1.4.3 Hexadecimal Numbers
1.4.4 Bytes, Nibbles, and All That Jazz
1.4.5 Binary Addition
1.4.6 Signed Binary Numbers
1.5 Logic Gates
1.5.1 NOT Gate
1.5.2 Buffer
1.5.3 AND Gate
1.5.4 OR Gate
1.5.5 Other Two-Input Gates
1.5.6 Multiple-Input Gates
1.6 Beneath the Digital Abstraction
1.6.1 Supply Voltage
1.6.2 Logic Levels
1.6.3 Noise Margins
1.6.4 DC Transfer Characteristics
1.6.5 The Static Discipline
1.7 CMOSTransistors
1.7.1 Semiconductors
1.7.2 Diodes
1.7.3 Capacitors
1.7.4 nMOS and pMOS Transistors
1.7.5 CMOS NOT Gate
1.7.6 Other CMOS Logic Gates
1.7.7 Transmission Gates
1.7.8 Pseudo-nMOS Logic
1.8 Power Consumption
1.9 Summary and a Look Ahead
Exercises
Interview Questions
Chapter 2 Combinational Logic Design
2.1 Introduction
2.2 BooleanEquations