Digital Design and Computer Architecture

Chapter 1 From zero to one

1.1 The Game Plan

1.2 The Art of Managing Complexity

1.3 The Digital Abstraction

1.4 Number Systems

1.5 Logic Gates

1.6 Beneath the Digital Abstraction

1.7 CMOS Transistors^*

1.8 Power Consumption^*

1.9 Summary and a Look Ahead

Exercises

Interview Questions

1.1 THE GAME PLAN

Microprocessors have revolutionized our world during the past three decades. A laptop computer today has far more capability than a room-sized mainframe of yesteryear. A luxury automobile contains about 50 microprocessors. Advances in microprocessors have made cell phones and the Internet possible, have vastly improved medicine, and have transformed how war is waged. Worldwide semiconductor industry sales have grown from US $21 billion in 1985 to ...