EE303: Digital System Design

Course Overview

Kyeongha Kwon
School of EE, KAIST
 Contact
 Instructor: Kyeongha Kwon
− Office: KAIST E19, 207 (Call: 7467)

− Email: kyeongha@kaist.ac.kr

− Lab : krg.kaist.ac.kr

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 Contact
 Teaching Assistant (TA)
− Young Min Sim (심영민, ymsim0@kaist.ac.kr) : Head TA, Project

− Doyun Park (박도윤, donext@kaist.ac.kr) : HW1

− Yoojin Kang (강유진, eugene0409@kaist.ac.kr) : HW2

− Gyurim Jang (장규림, jgl0304@kaist.ac.kr) : HW3

− Byeongho Hwang (황병호, crovas@kaist.ac.kr) : HW4

− Changhee Park (박창희, pch1998@kaist.ac.kr) : HW5

− Seongyeol Lee (이성열, isung1217@kaist.ac.kr) : HW6

− Minseung Shin (신민승, ms.shin@kaist.ac.kr) : HW7

− Seohye Ha (하서혜, seohye@kaist.ac.kr) : Project

 Send an e-mail to TA to arrange additional tutoring on lectures

− Chapter 1-4 : Doyun Park (박도윤), Yoojin Kang (강유진), Gyurim Jang (장규림)

− Chapter 5&6 : Byeongho Hwang (황병호), Changhee Park (박창희)

− Chapter 7&8 : Seongyeol Lee (이성열), Minseung Shin (신민승) 3

 Course Outline (I)
 Non-Real-Time class → self-paced learning

 Video lectures will be posted on the KLMS every Tuesday, 10 AM (from March 5th)
− Please watch all video lectures till to the end before Friday 11PM.

− TA will check your progress status every Friday night.

 Discussion & Help Session

− Zoom: https://kaist.zoom.us/j/7210364938

− PW: 22304

− Send an e-mail to Head TA to arrange

additional tutoring on lectures

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 Course Objectives
 Objectives
No prerequisites required!
− Design and Analysis of Digital Systems This is the introductory course

 Topics
− Number Systems, Boolean Algebra, Gate-level Minimization

− Combinational & Sequential Logic

− Resisters, Counters, Memory, and Programmable Logic

− Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design

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 Textbook
 Digital Design (Morris Mano)
− With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL, VHDL, and System Verilog

− You can use 5th or 6th or Global Edition

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 Schedule
Period Topics Remarks
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 Number Systems HW #1
Week 3 Boolean Algebra HW #2
Week 4 Gate-Level Minimization HW #3
Week 5-6 Combinational Logic HW #4
Week 7 Sequential Logic
Week 8 Mid-term exam In-person
Week 9 Sequential Logic HW #5
Week 10 Registers and Counters HW #6
Week 11 EDA Tutorial
Week 12-13 Memory and Programmable Logic HW #7
Week 14-15 Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design Project
Week 16 Final exam In-person

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 Evaluation
 7 HWs, 2 Exams, 1 Project, Video View % Period Assigned Work
Week 2 HW #1
 Workload (Grading) Week 3 HW #2

− 10% Video View % Week 4 HW #3

Week 5-6 HW #4
− 10% Project
Week 8 Midterm exam
− 20% Homework Week 9 HW #5

− 25% Midterm Exam Week 10 HW #6

Week 12-13 HW #7
− 35% Final Exam
Week 14-15 Project
Week 16 Final exam

TA will check your attendance (video view % > 90%) every Friday 11PM!

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EE303: Digital System Design

Lecture 1: Introduction to Digital System

Kyeongha Kwon
School of EE, KAIST
 The Zettabyte Era
 One zettabyte = 1012 (1 trillion) gigabyte
− In 2021, 79 zettabytes of data

− In 2025, this number will double

 What is data?
− Information converted into binary digital form.

 Who created all the data?

− All kinds of digital systems.

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 Digital Systems
 Designed to process, store, and communicate information in digital form.

 What is digital form?

− Digital data consists of only binary numbers, which have only two discrete values – 0 and 1.

 The most typical digital system is the digital computer.

− Computers have been creating all the data.

− Why is the data suddenly exploding?

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 The History of Computers
 The very first computer
− Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), invented in 1945
− The first automatic, general-purpose, electronic, decimal, and digital computer
• Cost? $487,000 (equivalent to $5,900,000 in 2020) / Weight: 27 tons
• Speed? It can multiply 10-digit numbers 357 times per second

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 The History of Computers
 From ENIAC to Apple II
− 1945: The first digital computer – ENIAC – consists of 19k vacuum tubes.
− 1947: The first transistor, an electrical switch, replacing large vacuum tubes.
− 1959: The first integrated circuit (IC), solving complex transistor wiring problems.
− 1971: The first central processing unit (CPU) – Intel 4004 – Consists of 2250 transistors.
− 1977: The first personal computer (PC) – Apple II – Displays color graphics.

Vacuum tubes (~1940s) Integrated circuits (1950s~)

Transistors (1940s~)
Personal computers (1970s~)
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 The History of Computers
 From IBM PC to modern cars
− 1981: The first IBM PC – 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor (29000 transistors), Microsoft MS-DOS.
− 2000: The first camera phone – Softbank Mobile J-SH04 – 0.11MB photo.
− 2007: The first smartphone – Apple iPhone – A computer in your hand.
− the 2010s: A modern car includes over 1000 ICs – A computer running on the road.

Modern PCs with Intel processors Camera phones (2000s~) Smart phones (2007~) Cars with thousands of ICs (2010~)
and MS software (1980s~)

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 Digital World
 Why is the data suddenly exploding?
− You’re holding a computer in your hand and wearing a computer on your wrist while
riding a computer.
− We create, store, and communicate digital data every second without knowing.

 Our world has grown increasingly digital.

 Let’s learn how to design digital systems and keep pace with the constant
innovations and new developments in the digital world
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 Question?
 Email
− PI : kyeongha@kaist.ac.kr (Call: 7467)

− Head TA : ymsim0@kaist.ac.kr

− TA in charge of Chapter 1
• Doyun Park (donext@kaist.ac.kr)

 CLASSUM, KLMS Q&A board

 Help session via ZOOM

− https://kaist.zoom.us/j/7210364938 (PW: 22304)

− Send an e-mail to Head TA to arrange private meeting!

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