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Digital Electronics (50% option only)

Lecturer: Dr S.W. Moore

No. of lectures and practicals: 11 + 7

This course is a prerequisite for ECAD (Part IB) and VLSI Design (Part II).


Aims


The aims of this course are to present the principles of combinational and sequential digital logic design and optimisation at a gate level. The use of transistors for interfacing and constructing gates is also introduced.


Lectures

Objectives


At the end of the course students should

Recommended books


* Katz, R.H. (1994). Contemporary logic design, Benjamin/Cummings.
Hayes, J.P. (1993). Introduction to digital logic design. Addison-Wesley.


Books for reference


Mead, C. & Conway, L. (1980). Introduction to VLSI systems. Addison-Wesley (used in Part II VLSI).
Horowitz, P. & Hill, W. (1989). The art of electronics. Cambridge University Press (2nd ed.) (more analog).



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