CSEE W4823x: Readings

"B/V" = Brown/Vranesic, Fundamentals of Digial Logic with VHDL Design Third Edition ONLY

Date assigned

Assigned Readings

Sept. 4
  • B/V: Preface, ch. 1, ch. 2.9, ch. 4.11

Sept. 4 (optional)

Review/Background Reading:
  • basics of combinational logic: B/V ch. 2.1-2.8, 2.11-2.12
  • implementation technology: B/V ch. 3.1-3.5
  • combinational logic synthesis: B/V ch. 4.1-4.8, 4.13-4.14
  • Additionally, the Roth book (see full citation in Handout #1) is a good self-study guide and refresher resource for basic digital logic; it will be on reserve in the Monell Engineering Library.

Sept. 9
  • Handout #5: Quine-McCluskey Method
  • B/V: ch. 7.15: Timing Analysis of Flip-Flop Circuits
  • Lecture #2 Slides
  • latches, flipflops, basic registers: B/V ch. 7: introduction + ch. 7.1-7.9

Sept. 11
  • B/V: ch. 7.16-7.17 (incl. solved problems in ch 7.17)

·        Handout #6: pp. 737-740

·        Handout #7: pp. 62-65

Sept. 18
  • B/V ch. 8: intro. + 8.1-8.3

·        B/V ch. 8.5 (but skip 8.5.3)

  • B/V ch. 8.7 (note: B/V's "counter" is actually an FSM!)

Sept. 20
  • Handout #9

·        Lecture #5 Slides

·        B/V ch. 5 intro. + 5.1-5.3, ch. 5.8

Sept. 23
  • Handout #10 (Xilinx XC4000 Series FPGA's): read ch. 9.6 intro. + 9.6.1-9.6.2, skim 9.6.3-9.6.4
  • B/V, Appendix E.3: intro. + E.3.1 -- Altera Flex 10K FPGA's

·        B/V ch. 2.10 Introduction to VHDL

·        B/V ch. 4.12 VHDL basic circuit examples

Sept. 25

·        VHDL and arithmetic circuits: B/V ch. 5.5: intro + 5.5.1-5.5.3

·        (suggested: relevant parts of B/V VHDL appendix)

 



Last Updated: 9/5/2013