Course Overview
Lecturer: Dr. Nasreen Badruddin
Office: 23-03-25
Phone: 05-3687841
Email: nasreen.b@petronas.com.my
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Why Digital Electronics?
Most important application computer systems.
Digital technology can be found in television sets, washing machines, in communication systems, medical instrumentations, digital camera, process control etc.
E.g. microprocessors can be found in automatic washing machines to control the washing time, spin time etc for different types of load or fabric.
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What you will learn
In this course, you will start off with the very basic building blocks of digital technology
the binary system …
1110110101110000
logic gate… simple digital devices such as adders, decoders, flip-flops … how to DESIGN and IMPLEMENT a simple digital circuit for a specific application e.g. a traffic light controller.
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Course Aim
To give a first course in digital electronics and provide the necessary knowledge and skills required to design basic digital circuits.
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Course Objectives
Boolean logic gates – basic building blocks of digital systems.
Basic Design tools – Boolean algebra,
Karnaugh Maps, Quine-McCluskey Methods
Use combinational logic to design application specific system.
Flip-flops, latches and other digital devices.
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Course Objectives
Sequential circuits and state machines.
Software tools – Electronic Workbench
(EWB), and Verilog.
In short, you will learn to implement, design, troubleshoot and analyze digital circuits.
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Course Components
Lectures
Labs