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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: MWF 10:00-11:30 am Email: [email protected] Phone: 979-587-1877 Lab Time:
501: Wed 09:10 am-12:00 pm, 502: Mon 6:00 pm- 8:50 pm 503: Thur 09:10 am-12:00 pm
Required textbook:
Brown and Vranesic (2rd Edition)Fundamentals of Digital Logic with
Verilog Design.
Course info
Course website http://dropzone.tamu.edu/~wshi/248_fall.html All slides, labs, assignments, etc.
Mailing list: Emails will be sent periodically to tamu
accounts Announcements:
Lecture cancellations Deadline extension Updates, etc.
Grading Policy:
Homework (15%) Labs (20%) Exam 1 : 15% Exam 2 : 20% Exam 3 : 25% Quizzes 5%
Course Goals
Study methods for Representation, manipulation, and optimization
for both combinatorial and sequential logic Solving digital design problems Study HDL description language (Verilog)
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
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
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
The PowerPC 750
Introduced in 1999
3.65M transistors
366 MHz clock rate
40 mm2 die size 250nm
technology
The Underlying Technologies
Year Technology Relative Perf./Unit Cost
1951 Vacuum Tube 1
1965 Transistor 35
1975 Integrated Circuit (IC) 900
1995 Very Large Scale IC (VLSI) 2,400,000
2005 VLSI (not a fancy name??) 6,200,000,000
Year
Tra
nsis
tors
1000
10000
100000
1000000
10000000
100000000
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
i80386
i4004
i8080
Pentium
i80486
i80286
i8086
Technology Trends: Microprocessor Complexity
2X transistors/ChipEvery 1.5 years
Called “Moore’s Law”
Alpha 21264: 15 millionPentium Pro: 5.5 millionPowerPC 620: 6.9 millionAlpha 21164: 9.3 millionSparc Ultra: 5.2 million
Moore’s Law
Athlon (K7): 22 Million
Itanium 2: 41 Million
How to Remember?
United States 307 million as of July 2010
Intel processor (core 2 duo) 291 million transistors as of 2006
ECEN 248
Layers of abstraction
I/O systemProcessor
CompilerOperatingSystem(Mac OSX)
Application (ex: browser)
Digital DesignCircuit Design
Instruction Set Architecture
Datapath & Control
transistors
MemoryHardware
Software Assembler