Upon completing this chapter, students should be able to:
Introduce binary digital logic concepts
Explore the voltage transfer characteristics of ideal and nonideal inverters
Define logic levels and logic states at the input and output of logic gates
Present goals for logic gate design
Understand the need for noise rejection and the concept of noise margin
Introduce measures of dynamic performance of logic gates including rise time, fall time, propagation delay, and power-delay product
Review Boolean algebra and the NOT, OR, AND, NOR, and NAND functions
Explore simple transistor implementations of the inverter
Introduce diode logic and diode-transistor logic circuits
Explore the design of MOS logic gates employing single transistor types—either NMOS or PMOS transistors (known as single-channel technology)
Learn basic inverter design; discover why transistors are used in place of resistors
Understand design and performance differences between saturated load, linear load, and depletion-mode load circuits
Present examples of noise margin calculations
Learn to design multiinput NAND and NOR gates
Learn to design complex logic gates including sum-of-products representations
Develop expressions and approximation techniques for calculating rise time, fall time, and propagation delay of the various single-channel logic families
