1. ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN Lecture 1 Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2. Instructor:  Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi  Office 333K WERC  Office Hour: MWF 10:00-11:30 am  Email: wshi@ece.tamu.eduwshi@ece.tamu.edu  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

3. Required textbook :  Brown and Vranesic (2 rd Edition) Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design.

4. 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.

5. Grading Policy:  Homework (15%)  Labs (20%)  Exam 1 : 15%  Exam 2 : 20%  Exam 3 : 25%  Quizzes 5%

6. Course Goals  Study methods for  Representation, manipulation, and optimization for both combinatorial and sequential logic  Solving digital design problems  Study HDL description language (Verilog)

7. The Evolution of Computer Hardware  When was the first transistor invented? l Modern-day electronics began with the invention in 1947 of the transfer resistor l Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Laboratories

8. 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

9. The Evolution of Computer Hardware  When was the first IC (integrated circuit) invented? l 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

10. The PowerPC 750  Introduced in 1999  3.65M transistors  366 MHz clock rate  40 mm 2 die size  250nm technology

11. The Underlying Technologies YearTechnologyRelative Perf./Unit Cost 1951Vacuum Tube1 1965Transistor35 1975Integrated Circuit (IC)900 1995Very Large Scale IC (VLSI)2,400,000 2005VLSI (not a fancy name??)6,200,000,000

12. Technology Trends: Microprocessor Complexity 2X transistors/Chip Every 1.5 years Called “Moore’s Law” Alpha 21264: 15 million Pentium Pro: 5.5 million PowerPC 620: 6.9 million Alpha 21164: 9.3 million Sparc Ultra: 5.2 million Moore’s Law Athlon (K7): 22 Million Itanium 2: 41 Million

13. How to Remember?  United States  307 million as of July 2010  Intel processor (core 2 duo)  291 million transistors as of 2006

14. ECEN 248 Layers of abstraction I/O systemProcessor Compiler Operating System (Mac OSX) Application (ex: browser) Digital Design Circuit Design Instruction Set Architecture Datapath & Control transistors Memory Hardware Software Assembler