The Digital Logic Level
- 1. The Digital Logic Level Chapter 3
- 2. Gates and Boolean Algebra (1) (a) A transistor inverter. (b) A NAND gate. (c) A NOR gate.
- 3. Gates and Boolean Algebra (2) The symbols and functional behavior for the five basic gates.
- 4. Boolean Algebra (a) Truth table for majority function of three variables. (b) A circuit for (a).
- 5. Circuit Equivalence (1) Construction of (a) NOT , (b) AND , and (c) OR gates using only NAND gates or only NOR gates.
- 6. Circuit Equivalence (2) Two equivalent functions (a) AB + AC , (b) A(B + C).
- 7. Circuit Equivalence (3) Some identities of Boolean algebra.
- 8. Circuit Equivalence (4) Alternative symbols for some gates: (a) NAND , (b) NOR , (c) AND , (d) OR
- 9. Circuit Equivalence (5) (a) The truth table for the XOR function. (b-d ) Three circuits for computing it.
- 10. Circuit Equivalence (6) (a) Electrical characteristics of a device. (b) Positive logic. (c) Negative logic.
- 11. Integrated Circuits An SSI chip containing four gates.
- 12. Multiplexers (1) An eight-input multiplexer circuit.
- 13. Multiplexers (2) (a) An MSI multiplexer. (b) The same multiplexer wired to compute the majority function.
- 14. Decoders A 3-to-8 decoder circuit.
- 15. Comparators A simple 4-bit comparator.
- 16. Programmable Logic Arrays A 12-input, 6-output programmable logic array. The little squares represent fuses that can be burned out.
- 17. Shifters A 1-bit left/right shifter.
- 18. Adders (1) (a) A truth table for 1-bit addition. (b) A circuit for a half adder. (a) (b)
- 19. Adders (2) (a) Truth table for a full adder. (b) Circuit for a full adder.
- 20. Arithmetic Logic Units (1) A 1-bit ALU.
- 21. Arithmetic Logic Units (2) Eight 1-bit ALU slices connected to make an 8-bit ALU. The enables and invert signals are not shown for simplicity.
- 22. Clocks (a) A clock. (b) The timing diagram for the clock. (c) Generation of an asymmetric clock.
- 23. Latches (1) (a) NOR latch in state 0. (b) NOR latch in state 1. (c) Truth table for NOR.
- 24. Latches (2) A clocked SR latch.
- 25. Latches (3) A clocked D latch.
- 26. Flip-Flops (1) (a) A pulse generator. (b) Timing at four points in the circuit.
- 27. Flip-Flops (2) A D flip-flop.
- 28. Flip-Flops (3) D latches and flip-flops.
- 29. Flip-Flops (4) Dual D flip-flop.
- 30. Flip-Flops (5) Octal flip-flop.
- 31. Memory Organization (1) Logic diagram for a 4 x 3 memory. Each row is one of the four 3-bit words.
- 32. Memory Organization (2) (a) A noninverting buffer. (b) Effect of (a) when control is high. (c) Effect of (a) when control is low. (d) An inverting buffer.
- 33. Memory Chips (1) Two ways of organizing a 4-Mbit memory chip.
- 34. Memory Chips (2) Two ways of organizing a 512 Mbit memory chip.
- 35. Nonvolatile Memory Chips A comparison of various memory types.
- 36. CPU Chips The logical pinout of a generic CPU. The arrows indicate input signals and output signals. The short diagonal lines indicate that multiple pins are used. For a specific CPU, a number will be given to tell how many.
- 37. Computer Buses (1) A computer system with multiple buses.
- 38. Computer Buses (2) Examples of bus masters and slaves.
- 39. Bus Width Growth of an Address bus over time.
- 40. Bus Clocking (1) Read timing on a synchronous bus.
- 41. Bus Clocking (2) Specification of some critical times.
- 42. Asynchronous Buses Operation of an asynchronous bus.
- 43. Bus Arbitration (1) (a) A centralized one-level bus arbiter using daisy chaining. (b) The same arbiter, but with two levels.
- 44. Bus Arbitration (2) Decentralized bus arbitration.
- 45. Bus Operations (1) A block transfer.
- 46. Bus Operations (2) Use of the 8259A interrupt controller.
- 47. The Pentium 4 The Pentium 4 physical pinout.
- 48. The Pentium 4’s Logical Pinout Logical pinout of the Pentium 4. Names in upper case are the office are the official Intel names for individual signals. Names in mixed case are groups of related signals or signal descriptions.
- 49. Pipelining on the Pentium 4’s Memory Bus Pipelining requests on the Pentium 4’s memory bus.
- 50. The UltraSPARC III (1) The UltraSPARC III CPU chip.
- 51. The UltraSPARC III (2) The main features of the core of an UltraSPARC III system.
- 52. The 8051 (1) Physical pinout of the 8051.
- 53. The 8051 (2) Logical pinout of the 8051.
- 54. The ISA Bus The PC/AT bus has two components, the original PC part and the new part.
- 55. The PCI Bus (1) Architecture of an early Pentium system. The thicker buses have more bandwidth than the thinner ones but the figure is not to scale.
- 56. The PCI Bus (2) The bus structure of a modern Pentium 4.
- 57. PCI Bus Arbitration The PCI bus uses a centralized bus arbiter.
- 58. PCI Bus Signals(1) Mandatory PCI bus signals.
- 59. PCI Bus Signals(2) Optional PCI bus signals.
- 60. PCI Bus Transactions Examples of 32-bit PCI bus transactions. The first three cycles are used for a read operation, then an idle cycle, and then three cycles for a write operation.
- 61. PCI Express A typical PCI Express system.
- 62. PCI Express Protocol Stack (a) The PCI Express protocol stack. (b) The format of a packet.
- 63. The Universal Serial Bus The USB root hub sends out frames every 1.00 ms.
- 64. PIO Chips An 8255A PIO chip.
- 65. Address Decoding (1) Location of the EPROM, RAM, and PIO in our 64 KB address space.
- 66. Address Decoding (2) Full address decoding.
- 67. Address Decoding (3) Partial address decoding.