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Sahithyan's S2
Sahithyan's S2 — Computer Organization And Digital Design

Introduction to Computer Organization and Digital Design

  • Digital Design: Principles & Practices by John F. Wakerly (Prentice-Hall Inc.) 3rd Ed.
  • Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy & David A Patterson (ISBN: 978-0123838728)
  • Computer Organization and Design:The Hardware/Software Interface: RISC-V Edition by John L. Hennessy & David A Patterson

Analog and Digital

Analog devices and systems have time-varying signals that take continuous ranges of values. Digital devices and systems are an abstracted version of analog systems with finitely many discrete states. 2 states are commonly used: HIGH (1) and LOW (0).

Comparison

  • Reproducibility of results - digital is better, because in analog, inteferences would cause errors
  • Flexibility - digital is better
  • Ease of design - digital is better