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ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN

ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN. Lecture 1 Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Instructor:. Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi Office 333K WERC Office Hour: MW 10:00-11:30 am Email: wshi@ece.tamu.edu Phone: 979-587-1877. Required textbook :.

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ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN

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  1. ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN Lecture 1 Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2. Instructor: • Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi • Office 333K WERC • Office Hour: MW 10:00-11:30 am • Email: wshi@ece.tamu.edu • Phone: 979-587-1877

  3. Required textbook: • Brown and Vranesic (2rd Edition) Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design.

  4. Course info • Course website • dropzone.tamu.edu/~wshi/248_spring11.html • All slides, labs, assignments, etc. • Mailing list: • Emails will be sent periodically to tamu accounts • Announcements: • Lecture cancellations • Deadline extension • Updates, etc.

  5. Grading Policy: • Homework (20%) • Labs (20%) • Exam 1 : 15% • Exam 2 : 15% • Exam 3 : 20% • Quizzes 10%

  6. Course Goals • Study methods for • Representation, manipulation, and optimization for both combinatorial and sequential logic • Solving digital design problems • Study HDL description language (Verilog)

  7. The Evolution of Computer Hardware • When was the first transistor invented? • Modern-day electronics began with the invention in 1947 of the transfer resistor • Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Laboratories

  8. William Shockley • Born in London, grown up in CA. • B.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1936 • During WWII • Anti-submarine research & bomber pilot training • Report on casualty of invading Japan: 1.7m to 4m • Presidential Medal for Merit • Bell Labs • Solid state physics group leader • Invention of transistor in 1947 • Silicon Valley • Shockley Semiconductor Lab, Mountain View, CA • Traitorous Eight formed Fairchild Semiconductor • Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, etc

  9. The Evolution of Computer Hardware • When was the first IC (integrated circuit) invented? • In 1958 the IC was born when Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments successfully interconnected, by hand, several transistors, resistors and capacitors on a single substrate

  10. The PowerPC 750 • Introduced in 1999 • 3.65M transistors • 366 MHz clock rate • 40 mm2 die size • 250nm technology

  11. The Underlying Technologies

  12. Technology Trends: Microprocessor Complexity Itanium 2: 41 Million Athlon (K7): 22 Million Alpha 21264: 15 million Pentium Pro: 5.5 million PowerPC 620: 6.9 million Alpha 21164: 9.3 million Sparc Ultra: 5.2 million Moore’s Law 2X transistors/Chip Every 1.5 years Called “Moore’s Law”

  13. How to Remember? United States 307 million as of July 2010 Intel processor (core 2 duo) 291 million transistors as of 2006

  14. Layers of abstraction Application (ex: browser) Operating Compiler System (Mac OSX) Software Assembler Instruction Set Architecture Hardware Processor Memory I/O system Datapath & Control Digital Design Circuit Design ECEN 248 transistors

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