Digital Systems and Hardware/Firmware Algorithms

This modern treatment of digital system specification, analysis, and design covers all topics from gates and flip-flops to complex hardware and system software algorithms. An upper-level undergraduate/graduate text, it uses two complementary approaches--system model and algorithmic model--in dealing with structured analysis and design, and separates specification from implementation to allow for the ready application of concepts to practical system design. Extensive illustrations and 500 exercises.

About the authors Miloš D. Ercegovac is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on computer system design and architecture, and theory and practice of computer arithmetic and VLSI-oriented algorithms, high-speed computer organization, functional (applicative) languages and data-driven machines, and fault-tolerant building blocks. Dr. Ercegovac earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Tomás Lang is Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lang’s primary research and teaching interests are in digital design and computer architecture with emphasis on multiprocessors and architectural support for operating systems functions. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.