The Electrical Engineering Handbook

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Sun-Yung Kung,     Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Benjamin W. Wah,     Computer and Systems Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

In the past half century, the world of microelectronic and information techonlogies has experienced a breathtaking and revolutionary evolution—50s semi-conductor, 60s integrated circuits, 70s microprocessor, 80s DSP/FPGA/ASIC processors, 90s multimedia multi-processors, to SoC for ubiquitous computing necessary for the ever-more-connected information world in the 21st century. Subsequently, the field of digital systems and computer engineering has also ...