Scribd
Upload
72 views

DLD Lecture 1

This document provides an overview of digital logic design. It introduces digital systems and how they manipulate discrete elements of information using binary signals. Digital computers are the most well-known example of digital systems. This course will cover the basic building blocks of digital circuits and how to combine them to design digital circuits that perform desired logical functions. It also provides a high-level overview of how a basic digital computer works by describing the main components of a computer and their functions.

Uploaded by

Muhammad Rehan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
72 views

DLD Lecture 1

This document provides an overview of digital logic design. It introduces digital systems and how they manipulate discrete elements of information using binary signals. Digital computers are the most well-known example of digital systems. This course will cover the basic building blocks of digital circuits and how to combine them to design digital circuits that perform desired logical functions. It also provides a high-level overview of how a basic digital computer works by describing the main components of a computer and their functions.

Uploaded by

Muhammad Rehan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 14

DIGITAL LOGIC

DESIGN
Lecture#1
Digital Logic Design

Recommended Text Book:


Digital LogicDesign
by
M. Morris Mano, 2nd Edition
Course Description
• This course presents the basic tools for
the design of digital circuits and
provides methods and
procedures suitable for a
variety of digital design applications.
Why is it named ‘digital’?
• Early computers were used mainly to
perform numeric computations
• They used discrete elements of
information: digits
• DIGITAL SYSTEMS:
manipulate discrete
elements of information (finite
sets)
• E.g. the 10 decimal digits, the 26 letters of
TODAY
• Computers are used in a variety of
applications such as scientific calculations,
commercial, and business data
processing, air traffic controls, space
guidance, educational field among others.
• Digital computers have made possible
many scientific, industrial, and commercial
advances that would have been
unattainable otherwise.
Digital Computers and Digital Systems

Computers can follow a sequence of instruction


called program, that operates on given data.

General-purpose digital computer is the best-


known example of a digital system.
Others are:
– Telephone switching exchanges, digital
voltmeters, digital counters, electronic
calculators, and digital displays.
Digital Computers and Digital Systems
Introduction:

Characteristic of a Digital system is its


manipulation of discrete elements of information.

Such discrete elements maybe:


electric impulses, decimal digits, letters of an
alphabet, arithmetic operations, punctuation
marks, or any set of meaningful meanings.
Digital Computers and Digital Systems

Discrete elements of information are represented in a


digital system by physical quantities called SIGNALS.

Voltages and currents are the most common


electrical signals.

Signals in the present day of electronic digital


systems have only two discrete values and
are said to be BINARY.
Beyond the digital computer…
• Digital devices (camcorders, DVDs, TV, phones,
microprocessor-based devices)

Why Digital Circuits?


• Digital devices are programmable – by simply
changing the program the same hardware can
be used for different applications
• Advances in digital integrated circuits
technology
– accuracy, reliability (DVD)
• Digital systems are interconnections of digital
modules
Digital circuits
• What digital modules in digital systems are
made of
• Each digital circuit implements a logical function
• Combination of digital circuits form a more complex logical
function (of the module)
• Combinations of modules – function of devices
• We will study different types of digital circuits
and learn to analyze their functionality and
ultimately how to design digital circuits that
accomplish a desired logical function
Digital Computers and Digital Systems
Figure 1.1
Block diagram of a digital computer
Control Unit Processor, or
Arithmetic Unit

Storage, or
Memory Unit

Input Output
Devices Devices
and and
Control Control
How does a computer work?
• Memory unit:
– Stores program as well as input, output, and
the intermediate data.

• Processor unit:
– Performs the arithmetic and other data
processing tasks as specified by a program
How does a computer work?
• Control unit:
– Supervises the flow of information between the
various units
– It retrieves the instructions, one by one, from the
program that is stored in the memory
– For each instruction, the control unit informs the
processor to execute the operation specified by
the instructions & the processor manipulates
the data as specified by the program.
How does a computer work?
• The program and data prepared by the
user are transferred into the memory unit
by means of the input device such as
keyboard

• Output device such as printer receives


the results of the computations & printed
results are presented to the user.

You might also like