Course overview
In Digital Fundamentals, students begin by exploring the basics of digital logic and progress to designing and implementing useful digital electronic circuits using a hardware description language and programmable logic device. By the end of the course, students will have mastered the skills to design, simulate, test, and evaluate combinational and sequential logic circuits of moderate complexity. They will also be familiar with design considerations such as power dissipation, delay, and managing complexity through modularity and abstraction.
- Introduction To Digital Logic
- Combinational Logic
- Sequential Logic
Course learning outcomes
- Compare analog and digital signals and circuits
- Explain the DC operation of simple digital circuits and technologies
- Convert between integer representations in decimal, binary and hexadecimal and perform basic arithmetic calculations in binary
- Construct truth tables, Boolean functions and gate-level schematic circuits from written specifications and vice-versa
- Explain the source of power dissipation and delay in digital circuits based on a switch level model
- Implement combinational logic circuits using manual design techniques, a hardware description language, and programmable logic devices
- Implement sequential logic circuits using manual design techniques, a hardware description language, and programmable logic devices