Digital Logic Design is a comprehensive textbook, which aims to provide entry-level readers a quick start to the field of digital logic design so as to facilitate them with the capability suitable for the versatility of social change and interdisciplinary learning. This textbook can be used as a textbook for classroom use in the fields of electronics, electrical, computer science, information engineering, mechanical, and so on. The salient features of this textbook are as follows: -- Introduce incrementally the principles of digital logic design and exemplify each basic theme and concept with abundant illustrations. -- Detail design principles of various combinational modules, including decoders, encoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, arithmetic circuits, and so on. -- Introduce design principles of various sequential modules, including counters, registers, shift registers, sequence generators, etc. -- Address the structures, features, and applications of PLD/FPGA devices.-- Exemplify applications of CPLD/FPGA devices with Verilog HDL modules.-- Provide 20 basic and application experiments of digital logic to help readers verify the consistence of digital logic between principles and practice. -- Include an abundance of review questions in each section to help readers evaluate their understandings about the section.-- Deal with Verilog HDL concisely in relevant sections so as to make the reader understand how to describe a logic circuit in Verilog HDL precisely.Digital Logic Design is an ideal textbook for the digital logic design course in the fields of electronics, electrical, computer science, information engineering, mechanical, etc, or serves as a valuable reference book for self-study.
About the Author: Ming-Bo Lin is a Professor of Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Professor Lin received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the National Taiwan Institute of Technology, Taipei, his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been teaching the courses related to the field of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics for over twenty-five years. He was an adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University. His research interests include VLSI system designs, mixed-signal integrated circuit designs, parallel architectures and algorithms, and embedded computer systems. He has published numerous journal and conference papers in these areas. In addition, he has directed the designs of over fifty ASICs and has been consulted in industry extensively in the fields of ASIC, SoC, and embedded system designs. He is a senior member of IEEE. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He chaired the Workshop on Computer Architectures, Embedded Systems, and VLSI/EDA in National Computer Symposium (NCS) 2009. During the past twenty-five years, Professor Lin has translated two books and authored about thirty books (include revisions), especially including the following English textbooks 1. Ming-Bo Lin, Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. (ISBN: 9780470823231) 2. Ming-Bo Lin, Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit, and System Perspective, CRC Press, 2012. (ISBN: 9781439868591)