Preliminary 2025-2026 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    May 19, 2025  
Preliminary 2025-2026 Yavapai College Catalog

ELT 183 - Digital Circuits


Description: Introduction to logic circuits used in computers and other digital equipment. Includes number systems, logic gates, combinational logic, simplification techniques, encoders, decoders, flip-flops, counters, registers, memory, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, programmable logic devices (PLDs) and hardware description language (HDL).

Credits: 3
Lecture: 2
Lab: 2

Course Content:
  1. Number systems, operations and codes
  2. Logic gates and combinatorial logic
  3. Boolean algebra and logic simplification techniques
  4. Flip-flops, counters and related sequential devices
  5. Registers, memory and storage
  6. Combinational logic devices including arithmetic circuits, data selectors, encoders, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters
  7. Programmable logic devices (PLDs) and hardware description language (HDL)

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Convert numbers between digital number systems including binary, octal and hexadecimal. (1)
  2. Troubleshoot logic gates and combinational logic circuits using schematic symbols, truth tables, and Boolean expressions. (2)
  3. Simplify logic circuits using Boolean algebra, sum-of-products and Karnaugh mapping. (3)
  4. Describe the operation and applications of flip-flop, digital counter and other sequential circuits. (4)
  5. Describe the operation and applications of registers, digital memory and storage devices. (5)
  6. Describe the operation and applications of combinational logic devices including adders and subtractors, multiplexers and demultiplexers, encoders and decoders, and digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters. (6)
  7. Implement and debug digital logic circuits and sequential machines with an FPGA and HDL. (7)