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For one- to two-semester Computer Science and Engineering courses in logic and digital design. Featuring a strong emphasis on the fundamentals underlying contemporary logic design using hardware description languages, synthesis, and verification, this book focuses on the ever-evolving applications of basic computer design concepts with strong connections to real-world technology. Salient Features Balance of Hardware Description Language coverage - VHDL, Verilog, or none. Strong connections to real-word technology-Discusses SRAM, DRAM, and synchronous DRAM technologies. Provides solid digital system design fundamentals while accomplishing a gradual, bottom-up development of fundamentals. Companion Website-12 reading supplements consisting of new material and deleted material from prior editions, code for all VHDL and Verilog examples, 25% of the problem solutions, and projection originals for all figures and major tables. New to this Edition Approximately 40% of end of chapter problems are new or revised. Many new real-world examples and problems have been added. Example and problems are then used to illustrate the procedures for arriving at a description of a solution that can serve as input to CAD tools Greater emphasis on formulation stage of design process -- recognizing computerized design tools now perform many of the subsequent steps.  Significant reorganization of content to better fit course topics Updates to technological content to keep material current Input-Output and Communication High Performance CPU Concepts Architectural Innovations A brief description and illustration of the Espresso algorithm as an example of a pragmatic approach to 2-leve circuit optimization.