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Digital Electronics Lecture 1: Overview A. Prof. Dr. M. Moustafa Dept. of Electrical Power & Machines Cairo University
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2 Teaching Materials: –Text Book : Digital Logic Design: Moris Mano, 4 th Edition –TA: (Eng. Hussain Hassan, Eng. M. Alnajjar) Attending classes is important !! Important Notes :
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3 Hierarchy of Computation ProblemProblem Algorithm s Programming in High-Level Language Programming in High-Level Language Compiler/Assembler/LinkerCompiler/Assembler/Linker Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) BinaryBinary System architecture Target Machine (one implementation) Target Machine (one implementation) Micro-architectureMicro-architecture Functional units/ Building blocks Functional units/ Building blocks Gates Level Design Design TransistorsTransistorsManufacturingManufacturing
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4 Hierarchy of Computation ProblemProblem Algorithm s Programming in High-Level Language Programming in High-Level Language Compiler/Assembler/LinkerCompiler/Assembler/Linker Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) BinaryBinary System architecture Target Machine (one implementation) Target Machine (one implementation) Micro-architectureMicro-architecture Functional units/ Building blocks Functional units/ Building blocks Gates Level Design Design TransistorsTransistorsManufacturingManufacturing System Level Human Level RTL Level Logic Level Circuit Level Silicon Level
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5 Our Focus in 2030 Hierarchy of Computation ProblemProblem Algorithm s Programming in High-Level Language Programming in High-Level Language Compiler/Assembler/LinkerCompiler/Assembler/Linker Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) BinaryBinary System architecture Target Machine (one implementation) Target Machine (one implementation) Micro-architectureMicro-architecture Functional units/ Building blocks Functional units/ Building blocks Gates Level Design Design TransistorsTransistorsManufacturingManufacturing System Level Human Level RTL Level Logic Level Circuit Level Silicon Level
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6 Zoom-in a System Component
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7 Moore’s Law Exponential growth 2,250 Transistor count will be doubled every 18 months Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder 42millions 1.7 billions Montecito 10 μm 13.5mm 2 0.09 μm 596 mm 2
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8 Integrated Circuit Complexity Source: Intel
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9 Minimum Feature Size We are currently at 0.065µm (65nm) and moving towards 0.045µm
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10 Average Transistor Price per year Source: Dataquest
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11 Processor Market Segmentation High Performance (e.g. IBM Power5, G5, Intel 32/64, Itanium, Pentium4, Sun T1, etc) High Performance (e.g. IBM Power5, G5, Intel 32/64, Itanium, Pentium4, Sun T1, etc) Embedded / low-power (e.g. Intel Xscale, ARM, MIPS) Embedded / low-power (e.g. Intel Xscale, ARM, MIPS) Special purpose (e.g. DSP, NVidia GForce) Special purpose (e.g. DSP, NVidia GForce)
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12 Analog Signal vs. Digital So, why Digital?
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13 Binary Signals So, why Binary?
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14 Voltage Range of Binary Signals 0.0 Volts 1.0 Volts 2.0 Volts 3.0 Volts 4.0 Volts 5.0 Volts INPUT OUTPUT HIGH (1) LOW (0) HIGH (1) LOW (0)
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BACKUP
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16 A Generic Intel-based PC System Your CPU here
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17 Dual-Core Itanium 2 (Montecito)
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