The manuscript entitled "LOGIC DESIGN – Manual for laboratory exercises", by Miloš Radmanovića, Dragana Janković, and Radomira Stanković, consists of 82 computer prepred pages in B5 format. The manuscript it intended as a manual for labaratory exercises within the course Logic design.
The contents is organized in 8 chapters, each of them covering a particualr laboratory exercise. The catpers covers the followign subjects
Exercise 1. Representation and realization of switchign functions.
Exercise 2. Minimization of switchifgn functions.
Exercise 3. Determination of Reed-Muller expressiosn of switchign functions.
Exercise 4. Representaiton of fucntions by decision diagrams.
Exercise 5. Decomposition of switchign functions.
Exercise 6. Universal cellular arrays.
Exercise 7. Synthesis of logic networks with multiplexers.
Practicum contains sixt addenda and a list of 13 relevant bibliographic items.
The presentation within each chapter starts with a brief theoretical background related to the subject of the exercise, followed by a numer fo solved examples, which should help a student to perform the task specified for the exercise. The goul of the exercise is formualted and the task that should be performed by each student independenly is clearly specified for each exercise. Since the labasratory exercises are performed within the groups of 10 students, for each of them a separate concrete task is defined.
The first four chapters contain also a description of software applications that will be used to perform the exercises.
Adedendum A is related to the application Multimedia Logic, which is a simple environment for the designa nd testing of digitall ogic circuits. The application is not intended to a design in real environment, but is rather oriented to experimenting and education, thus, written by didactical and pedagogical principles.
Addendum B presents the application Logic Edit, which is an environment for the optimization of switching functions.
Addendum C describes the application UDDPGUI (Universal Decision Diagram Package Graphic User Interface) which is an universal environment for representaiton of discrete functions by decision diagrams.
Addendum D discusses the application Deus Ex Machina which is realized as a part of the publication Models, Computational Models and Formal Languages by Grefory Taulor (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998), and it is intended to a better understanding of automata theory.
Addendum E contains tables of basci BCD codes used in this exercie.
Addendum F briefly presents theory of fast computational algorithms for discrete transforms representable by transform matrices that can be expressed in terms of the Kronecker product of basic transform matrices.
The contents of the Practicum completelu covers the program of laboratory exersices for the course Logic design, and the way as they are presented will certainly contirbute to their successful realization by students.