Transcript Introduction - Computer Engineering & Systems Group

ECEN 248: INTRODUCTION TO
DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
Lecture 1
Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instructor:
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Dr. “Peter” Weiping Shi
 Office
333K WERC
 Office Hour: MWF 10:00-11:30 am
 Email: [email protected]
 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
Required textbook:
Brown and Vranesic (2rd Edition)
Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog
Design.
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Course info
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Course website
http://dropzone.tamu.edu/~wshi/248_fall.html
 All slides, labs, assignments, etc.
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Mailing list:
Emails will be sent periodically to tamu accounts
 Announcements:
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Lecture cancellations
Deadline extension
Updates, etc.
Grading Policy:
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Homework (15%)
Labs (20%)
Exam 1 : 15%
Exam 2 : 20%
Exam 3 : 25%
Quizzes 5%
Course Goals
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Study methods for
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Representation, manipulation, and optimization for
both combinatorial and sequential logic
Solving digital design problems
Study HDL description language (Verilog)
The Evolution of Computer Hardware
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When was the first transistor invented?
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Modern-day electronics began with the invention in
1947 of the transfer resistor
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Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Laboratories
William Shockley
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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
The Evolution of Computer Hardware
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When was the first IC (integrated circuit) invented?
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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
The PowerPC 750
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Introduced in 1999
3.65M transistors
366 MHz clock
rate
40 mm2 die size
250nm technology
The Underlying Technologies
Year
Technology
Relative Perf./Unit Cost
1951
Vacuum Tube
1
1965
Transistor
35
1975
Integrated Circuit (IC)
900
1995
Very Large Scale IC (VLSI)
2,400,000
2005
VLSI (not a fancy name??)
6,200,000,000
Technology Trends: Microprocessor
Complexity
100000000
Itanium 2: 41 Million
Athlon (K7): 22 Million
Alpha 21264: 15 million
Pentium Pro: 5.5 million
PowerPC 620: 6.9 million
Alpha 21164: 9.3 million
Sparc Ultra: 5.2 million
10000000
Moore’s Law
Pentium
i80486
Transistors
1000000
i80386
i80286
100000
2X transistors/Chip
Every 1.5 years
i8086
10000
i8080
i4004
1000
1970
1975
1980
1985
Year
1990
1995
2000
Called
“Moore’s Law”
How to Remember?
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United States
 307
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million as of July 2010
Intel processor (core 2 duo)
 291
million transistors as of 2006
Layers of abstraction
Application (ex: browser)
Compiler
Software
Hardware
Assembler
Operating
System
(Mac OSX)
Processor Memory I/O system
Instruction Set
Architecture
Datapath & Control
Digital Design
Circuit Design
transistors
ECEN 248