EGR 110 - Introduction to Digital Design

1. Number systems, operations and codes
2. Logic gates and combinatorial logic
3. Boolean algebra and logic simplification techniques
4. Sequential logic devices
5. Registers, memory circuits and register transfer language (RTL)
6. Combinational logic circuits
7. MSI and LSI circuits
8. Programmable logic devices (PLDs) and hardware description language (HDL)

1. Convert numbers between digital number systems including binary, octal and hexadecimal. (1)
2. Design simple combinational logic circuits using standard logic gates. (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, register and other sequential circuits. (4)
5. Design a state machine given a reasonable problem statement. (4)
6. Use the principles of register-transfer level (RTL) design to design a high-level state machine. (5)
7. 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)
8. Describe the benefits and limitations of MSI and LSI circuits. (7)
9. Design arbitrarily complex digital logic circuits and sequential machines with an FPGA and HDL when given a problem statement. (8)