Overview
- Presents fundamentally new methods for circuits
- Covers combinational circuits, latches and asynchronous sequential circuits
- Based on the successful monograph “Switching Theory” by the same author
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Combinational Circuits
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Front Matter
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Latches
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Front Matter
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Asynchronous Circuits
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About this book
In three main divisions the book covers combinational circuits, latches, and asynchronous sequential circuits. Combinational circuits have no memorising ability, while sequential circuits have such an ability to various degrees. Latches are the simplest sequential circuits, ones with the shortest memory. The presentation is decidedly non-standard.
The design of combinational circuits is discussed in an orthodox manner using normal forms and in an unorthodox manner using set-theoretical evaluation formulas relying heavily on Karnaugh maps. The latter approach allows for a new design technique called composition.
Latches are covered very extensively. Their memory functions are expressed mathematically in a time-independent manner allowing the use of (normal, non-temporal) Boolean logic in their calculation. The theory of latches is then used as the basis for calculating asynchronous circuits.
Asynchronous circuits are specified in a tree-representation, each internal node of the tree representing an internal latch of the circuit, the latches specified by the tree itself. The tree specification allows solutions of formidable problems such as algorithmic state assignment, finding equivalent states non-recursively, and verifying asynchronous circuits.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“In this book on logic circuit design (emphasis on ‘circuit’), the author reworks and expands the treatment provided in his earlier text, Switching theory: insight through predicate logic … . it will no doubt prove to be useful to engineers, circuit designers, etc., for its well-chosen examples and its ‘non-traditional’ emphasis on the underlying hardware realization problems of logic circuit design.” (Ronald E. Prather, Mathematical Reviews, January, 2013)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logic Circuit Design
Book Subtitle: Selected Methods
Authors: Shimon P. Vingron
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27657-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27656-9Published: 30 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-27657-6Published: 28 March 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Logic Design, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Information and Communication, Circuits