Digital circuitry and computer architecture

This is an additional edition of the book with an added Subject index, printed in black and blue as the original American edition! Also, inaccuracies, typos and errors have been corrected in the new edition compared to the b/w edition. The book "Digital Circuitry and Computer Architecture" presents a unique and modern approach to the development of digital devices. Harris and Harris start with digital logic elements, move on to the development of combinational and sequential circuits, and then use these basic blocks as the basis for the most difficult: designing a real MIPS processor. Examples in the SystemVerilog and VHDL languages are provided throughout the text, illustrating methods and methods of designing circuits using CAD. After studying this book, readers will be able to develop their own microprocessor and gain a complete understanding of how it works. Harris and Harris combined an attractive and humorous style of presentation with a developed and practical approach to the development of digital devices. The second edition includes new materials on input/output systems in relation to general-purpose processors for both PCs and microcontrollers, found almost everywhere. The new edition contains practical examples of peripheral device interfaces using RS232, SPI, motor control, interrupts, wireless communication and analog-to-digital conversion. A high-level description of PC I/O interfaces, including USB, SDRAM, WiFi, PCI Express and others, is presented. In addition, programming materials and code examples in SystemVerilog (replacing Verilog) have been added along with VHDL, as well as additional exercises and a new C programming application that reveals the connection between programming and processor architecture. Features of the publication: • covers the basics of digital device development and extends design skills to the development of the MIPS microprocessor; • the text includes examples that improve understanding and memorization of key concepts and methods; • examples of digital system development are presented both on VHDL and on SystemVerilog (with an update to the second edition of Verilog), and the listings are placed next to for the convenience of comparison and identification of advantages; • a chapter on programming in C is included, which not only gives the necessary basics of the language, but also strengthens the connection between programming and processor architecture; • on the book's website there are links to CAD for designing FPGA companies Altera and Mentor Graphics, lecture slides, laboratory projects and exercise solutions.