Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition

Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition takes a unique and modern approach to digital design. Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits, Harris and Harris use these fundamental building blocks as the basis for what follows: the design of an actual ARM processor. With over 75% of the world’s population using products with ARM processors, the design of the ARM processor offers an exciting and timely application of digital design while also teaching the fundamentals of computer architecture. SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design. By the end of this book, readers will be able to build their own microprocessor and will have a top-to-bottom understanding of how it works. Harris and Harris have combined an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design.

• Covers the fundamentals of digital logic design and reinforces logic concepts through the design of an ARM microprocessor.
• Features side-by-side examples of the two most prominent Hardware Description Languages (HDLs)―SystemVerilog and VHDL―which illustrate and compare the ways each can be used in the design of digital systems.
• Includes examples throughout the text that enhance the reader’s understanding and retention of key concepts and techniques.
• The Companion website includes a chapter on I/O systems with practical examples that show how to use the Raspberry Pi computer to communicate with peripheral devices such as LCDs, Bluetooth radios, and motors.
• The Companion website also includes appendices covering practical digital design issues and C programming as well as links to CAD tools, lecture slides, laboratory projects, and solutions to exercises.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. From Zero to One
Chapter 2. Combinational Logic Design
Chapter 3. Sequential Logic Design
Chapter 4. Hardware Description Languages
Chapter 5. Digital Building Blocks
Chapter 6. Architecture
Chapter 7. Microarchitecture
Chapter 8. Memory Systems
Chapter 9. I/O Systems
Appendix A. Digital System Implementation
Appendix B. ARM Instructions
Appendix C. C Programming