UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

Introduction to Digital Logic

Thursday 10/28, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  A.1-A.3

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  3.1-3.3

Assigned:  DigSim1

Due:   

Slides (in PDF): Slides16.pdf

Topics Covered:

• Definitions of combinational logic and sequential logic.
• Overview of the second part of the course.
• Boolean functions and truth-tables.
• Symbols for logic gates.
• Obtaining sum-of-products and product-of-sums formulas from a truth-table.
• Equivalence of Boolean functions, truth tables, Boolean formulas and combinational logic circuits.
• Universality of NAND gates.
• Demonstration of DigSim. See DigSim information webpage.