EE 264

Introduction to Digital Design
Spring 2012

Catalog Description: C-3. An introductory course covering the fundamentals of computer system hardware. Topics include data representation using number systems and codes, Boolean algebra and logic, digital logic devices, combinational and sequential circuits, arithmetic logic units and simple processor organization including registers, memory, addressing and processing of machine instructions. (Each Spring)

Course Learning Objectives: The main objectives of this course is to provide the beginning student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs with a basic understanding of digital system design and an introduction to a simple microprocessor.

Learning Objectives: Students in will be able to

• Understand how digital data is represented
• Be familiar with the fundamentals of combinational devices and their characteristics
• Be able to perform elementary combinational circuit design
• Write VHDL codes to simulate simple digital circuits.
• Be familiar with basic sequential devices and their behavior
• Be familiar with the fundamentals of registrar level microprocessor architecture
• Understand how instructions are executed at the register level
• Should have a knowledge of contemporary issues
• Students should learn how to document completed designs in written form using an appropriate technical style.

I. Instructor

Dr. Abul Khondker

ECE Dept.  134 CAMP

Phone: 268-2127

E-mail: khondker@clarkson.edu

Webpage: http://people.clarkson.edu/~khondker/

Office hours:     M-Th   10:30-12:00 noon or by appointment

II. Prerequisites: None.

III. Textbook

Digital Fundamentals, 10/E, Thomas L. Floyd

ISBN-10: 0132359235 ISBN-13: 9780132359238 Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2009

IV. Course Outline     (Textbook references are given in brackets)

1. Introductory Digital Concepts [Chap 1]
2. Number Systems, Operations and Codes. [Chap 2]
3. Logic Gates & Boolean Algebra [Chap. 3 & 4]
4. Combinational Logic  [Chap. 5 & 6]
5. First concepts of VHDL [Chap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6]
6. Additional VHDL Topics [Chap 7]
7. Flip-flops [Chap 8]
8. Counters [Chap 9]
9. Shift-Registers [10]
10. Memory and Storage [Chap. 11]
11. Computer Basics, Introduction to Microprocessors [Chap. 12]

V.    Assignments, Exams, and Grading

1. Homework Problems sets – approximately 10 in a semester

2. Hour Exams:        (TBA)

Date	Day of the week	Time	Location
February 22	Wednesday	8:00-9:30 pm	SC360
April 4	Wednesday	6:00-7:30 pm	CAMP 176 & 177

3. Comprehensive final exam.

4. Grades will be determined as follows:

Hour Exam average  40.0 %

Homework 20.0 %

Projects (Technical Reports) 20.0 %

Final exam                          20.0 %

Lecture notes:

All PowerPoint lectures, class notes, solutions, etc. will be available in Clarkson University’s Moodle.