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Digital Electronics
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course introduces the student to the basic principles and theory of operation for digital circuits.
PREREQUISITES:
Electronic Circuits or equivalent skills.
COURSE LENGTH:
This course contains 18 lessons and 18 drills.
UNIT-BY-UNIT TOPICAL OUTLINE:
Unit 1 - Binary numbers, binary to decimal conversions, decimal to binary conversions, binary addition
Unit 2 - Analog versus digital, diode switches, BJT switches, propagation delays, JFET switches, MOSFET switches, Op Amp switches
Unit 3 - AND gates, truth tables, AND gate circuits
Unit 4 - OR gates, OR gate circuits, NOT gates, NOT gate circuits, buffers
Unit 5 - NAND gates, NOR gates, XOR gates, XNOR gates
Unit 6 - Boolean multiplication, boolean addition, boolean negation, the boolean equation for a circuit, negated inputs
Unit 7 - The boolean equation for an XOR gate, the boolean equation for an XNOR gate, DeMorgan's theorems, simplifying boolean expressions
Unit 8 - IC logic families, current sourcing/sinking, fan-out, voltage and current parameters, noise margin, RTL, DTL, HTL, ECL
Unit 9 - The TTL family, multiple emitter inputs, voltage requirements, floating inputs
Unit 10 - TTL subfamilies: 74, 74L, 74H, 74S, 74LS, 74AS, 74ALS; wire ANDing; open collector TTL; pull-up resistors; tristate logic
Unit 11 - CMOS subfamilies: 4000, 74C, 74HC, 74HCT; interfacing logic families; CMOS handling techniques
Unit 12 - RS flip-flops, NOR RS flip-flops, NAND RS flip-flops
Unit 13 - Flip-flop clocking, the D latch, Preset, Clear
Unit 14 - JK flip-flops, toggle action, racing, edge triggering, master-slave JK flip-flops
Unit 15 - Ripple counters, BCD ripple counters, synchronous counters, decrement counters
Unit 16 - Half-adder circuits, full adders, multi-bit adders
Unit 17 - Encoding, decoding, multiplexing
Unit 18 - Multivibrator clocks, the Schmitt trigger, the 555 timer, crystal-controlled clocks
NOTES:
The computerized drill units give you virtually unlimited practice on key computational skills needed to understand the operations of digital circuits.
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