BEE2205 Digital Electronics II

Course Unit Title

BEE2205 Digital Electronics II

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Course Unit Description

The course treats digital electronics focusing on applications of digital electronics in logic circuits and digital storage.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course students should be able to:

  • Understand operations and applications of digital electronic circuits
  • Analyse and sysnthesise digital electronic circuits
  • To build and test digital electronic circuits

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course the student will be able to:

  • Represent numerical values in various number systems and perform number conversions between different number systems.
  • Demonstrate the knowledge of: operation of logic gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR) using IEEE/ANSI standard symbols; Boolean algebra including algebraic manipulation/simplification, and application of DeMorgan's theorems; Karnaugh map reduction method.
  • Demonstrate the knowledge of operation of basic types of flip-flops, registers, counters, decoders, encoders, multiplexers, and de-multiplexers.
  • Analyze and design digital combinational circuits including arithmetic circuits (half adder, full adder, multiplier).
  • Analyze sequential digital circuits.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the nomenclature and technology in the area of memory devices: ROM, RAM, PROM, PLD, FPGAs, etc