Digital Electronics
Course Overview and
Introduction
數位電子學 Digital Electronics
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Lecturer : 顧孟愷 Mong-kai Ku
Tel: 23625336x531
Fax: 23628167
E-mail: mku@csie.ntu.edu.tw
Office: 531
Textbook: Microelectronic Circuit Design –by
R.C. Jaeger – McGraw-Hill
Scoring
Class Participation : 10%
 Home work : 20%
 Mid-term : 30%
 Final : 40%
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Microsoft
Apple Inc.
What do we teach in this class?
Window to the hardware world
 Fundamentals for hardware design
 Industry Perspective
 Hands-on Experience
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SPICE
Verilog HDL
iPod Success Story
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iPod sold 173million worldwide.(2008/9) exceed 220million (2009/9)
iTunes store has 10,000,000 songs; sold over 5 billion songs
Apple iPod has the best hardware, software and service
combination on the market.
iPhone
Electronics Circuit
 IC
 LCD
 Embedded System
 Communication System
 Software
 Much more ….
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iPAD
Digital Electronics
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Electronics refers to the flow of charge (moving
electrons) through semiconductors (Si, GaAs, …).
Electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal
conductors.
Digital Electronics are Electronic System that uses
digital signals
Digital electronics are representations of Boolean
algebra and are used in computers, digital
communication systems, and other consumer products.
Digital
Logic
Hands on
Experience
Electronics
Circuits
Digital
Electronics
數位電路實驗
DIP
數位矽智財導論
Industry
Perspective
VLSI /
Embedded
System
DE Course Highlights
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Cover the course materials from industry perspective
Explores the characteristics of digital logic gates
Builds career sustaining understanding of electronics
and circuit analysis skills
Ground-up approaches. Covers transistor level, gate
level and advanced logic circuits
Course Outline
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Introduction to Digital Electronics
Basics of Circuit Theory
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Solid-State Electronics
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SPICE
Start-up Experience – Broadcom Corp.
Foundry – TSMC
Solid-State Diodes and Diode Circuits
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Power Electronics – Delta 台達電
Course Outline (cont.)
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Field Effect Transistors
CMOS Logic Design
Introduction to Digital IC design
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FPGA Design
MOS Memory and Advanced Logic Circuits
Embedded Systems
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An embedded system is a special-purpose
computer system designed to perform one or a
few dedicated functions, often with real-time
computing constraints.
Electronics Circuit
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An electronic circuit is a closed path formed by the
interconnection of electronic components through which
an electric current can flow.
Integrated Circuit
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integrated circuit (IC) is a miniaturized electronic circuit
that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin
substrate of semiconductor material.
Intel 80386DX
Goals
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Provide an overview of electronics
 Organization
of the field
 Terminology
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Provide career foundation cornerstones
– circuit analysis
 Performance estimates – what sets fundamental
limits
 Examples of modern and changing technology
 Skills
SW/HW Boundary is Blurring
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Processor takes over tasks
performed by software
IBM Power 5 Processor –
networking, virtual memory
and message passing
IBM Power 6 Processor –
database, and web sphere
e-commerce
Embedded Software
required tight integration
between SW and HW
What should a computer
scientist know about electronics?
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Knowing something about physical nature of information
(voltages and currents) can be useful in understanding
what goes in and out of a computer, memory, etc.
Knowing something about the electronic devices (e. g.
CMOS) can be useful in understanding the restrictions
on size, weight and performance of working systems
Learning enough electronics to be able to carry out
simple performance and power calculations can be
useful in understanding the limits of actual physical
hardware
IC Company
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Foundry – Fabrication of IC
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Design House – Design of IC
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TSMC, UMC, Charter
Computer : Intel, AMD, nVidia
Communication : Qualcomm, Broadcom
Consumer : Sony, Samsung, Mediatek, MStar
DRAM : Hynix, Micron, Qimonda, Elpida
FPGA : Altera, Xilinx
EDA – Tools for IC Design
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Electronic Design Automation
 Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, Magma, Springsoft
How to have a long & successful
engineering career?
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Know the market
 Technology
marketplace
 Financial marketplace
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Be Adaptive
 Learn
the fundamentals well
 Broaden the horizon
IC Supplier Top 20
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Total Industry Revenue :
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270 billion USD (2007 est.)
260 billion (2006)
237 billion (2005)
134 billion (1998)
Individual company:
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No. 1 : Intel : 33.97 billion
TSMC : Rank 6th at 9.748 billion (2006)
UMC : Rank 21st at 3.67 billion (2006)
HTC : NT 152.56billion (2008)
Apple : 24.01 billion (2007)
Google : 21.79 billion (2008)
2007 Ranking
Rank
2007
Rank
2006
Company
Country of origin
Revenue
(million
$ USD)
2007/2006 changes
Market share
1
1
Intel Corporation
USA
33 973
+7.7%
12.5%
2
2
Samsung Electronics
South Korea
20 137
+1.5%
7.4%
3
4
Toshiba Semiconductors
Japan
12 590
+24.1%
4.6%
4
3
Texas Instruments
USA
12 172
-3.4%
4.5%
5
5
STMicroelectronics
ItalyFrance
9 991
+1.4%
3.7%
6
7
Hynix
South Korea
9 614
+22.2%
3.5%
7
6
Renesas Technology
Japan
8 137
3.0%
3.0%
8
14
Sony
Japan
8 040
+56.8%
3.0%
9
10
NXP
Netherlands
6 038
+2.8%
2.2%
10
15
Infineon
Germany
5 864
+14.6%
2.2%
11
8
AMD
USA
5 792
-22.8%
2.1%
12
16
Qualcomm
USA
5 603
+23.7%
2.1%
13
11
NEC Semiconductors
Japan
5 555
-0.8%
2.1%
14
9
Freescale
USA
5 349
-10.7%
2.0%
15
13
Micron Technology
USA
4 943
-5.8%
1.8%
16
12
Qimonda
Germany
4 186
-22.7%
1.5%
17
17
Panasonic
Japan
3 946
-1.9%
1.5%
18
19
Elpida Memory
Japan
3 836
+8.8%
1.4%
19
18
Broadcom
USA
3 731
+1.7
1.4%
20
20
Sharp Electronics
Japan
3 584
+7.3%
1.3%
Top 20
173 081
+5.1%
63.9%
All Other companies
97 849
+2.4%
36.1%
TOTAL
270 930
+4.1%
100.0%
2006 Ranking
Rank
2006
Rank
2005
Company
Country of origin
Revenue
(million
$ USD)
2006/2005 changes
Market share
1
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Intel
USA
31 542
-11.1%
12.1%
2
2
Samsung Semiconductors
South Korea
19 842
+12.0%
7.6%
3
3
Texas Instruments
USA
12 600
+17.3%
4.8%
4
4
Toshiba Semiconductors
Japan
10 141
+11.7%
3.9%
5
5
STMicroelectronics
Italy-France
9 854
+11.0%
3.8%
6
7
Renesas Technology
(merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors)
Japan
7 900
-2.6%
3.0%
7
11
Hynix
South Korea
7 865
+41.5%
3.0%
8
15
AMD (1)
USA
7 506
+91.6%
2.9%
9
10
Freescale (3)
USA
5 988
+7.0%
2.3%
10
9
NXP (spin-off from Philips Semiconductors) (2)
Netherlands
5 874
+4.0%
2.3%
11
8
NEC Semiconductors
Japan
5 679
-0.5%
2.2%
12
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Qimonda (4) (spin-off from Infineon)
Germany
5 413
N/A
2.1%
13
12
Micron Technology
USA
5 210
+9.1%
2.0%
14
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Infineon (4)
Germany
5 119
-38.3%
2.0%
15
13
Sony
Japan
4 852
+6.1%
1.9%
16
16
Qualcomm
USA
4 529
+31.0%
1.7%
17
14
Matsushita Electric
Japan
4 022
-2.6%
1.5%
18
20
Broadcom
USA
3 668
+37.3
1.4%
19
28
Elpida Memory
Japan
3 527
+98.6%
1.4%
20
17
Sharp Electronics
Japan
3 341
+2.3%
1.3%
Other companies
81 912
+7.3%
31.5%
TOTAL
260 194
+9.3%
100.0%
1998 Ranking
Rank
1998
Rank
1997
Company
Country of origin
Revenue
(million
$ USD)
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Intel
USA
22 784
2
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NEC Semiconductors
Japan
8 135
3
3
Motorola Semiconductors
USA
7 086
4
5
Toshiba Semiconductors
Japan
5 869
5
4
Texas Instruments
USA
5 820
6
6
Hitachi Semiconductors
Japan
4 620
7
7
Samsung Semiconductors
South Korea
4 595
8
8
Philips Semiconductors
Netherlands
4 445
9
10
STMicroelectronics (1)
France-Italy
4 197
10
9
Fujitsu Semiconductors
Japan
3 826
1988 Ranking
Rank
1988
Rank
1987
Company
Country of origin
Revenue
(million
$ USD)
1
1
NEC Semiconductors
Japan
4 543
2
2
Toshiba Semiconductors
Japan
4 395
3
3
Hitachi Semiconductors
Japan
3 506
4
4
Motorola Semiconductors
USA
3 035
5
5
Texas Instruments
USA
2 741
6
6
Fujitsu Semiconductors
Japan
2 607
7
10
Intel
USA
2 350
8
9
Mitsubishi Semiconductors
Japan
2 312
9
11
Matsushita Semiconductors
Japan
1 883
10
7
Philips Semiconductors
Netherlands
1 738
11
8
National Semiconductor
USA
1 650
12
14
SGS-Thomson
France-Italy
1 087
13
12
AMD
USA
1 084
14
13
Sanyo Semiconductors
Japan
1 083
15
18
Sharp Semiconductors
Japan
1 036
16
19
Sony Semiconductors
Japan
950
17
17
OKI Semiconductors
Japan
847
18
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Samsung Semiconductors
South Korea
905
19
15
AT&T
USA
859
20
16
Siemens Semiconductors
Germany
784
Broadcom Corp.
TSMC
Rambus Inc.
ARM Holdings
Intel Corp.
Qualcomm, Inc.
MediaTek Inc.
Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.
Delta Electronics