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Electronics - ELTR 414

Advanced Digital Electronics

• Review of basic logic gates and logic gates in ICs.
• Introduction to the concept of timing diagrams. 
• Introduction to the Altera Max+Plus II PLD development system.  First tasks include entering and simulation of basic logic circuits.
• Review of Boolean algebra and DeMorgan’s rules for circuit reduction.
• Review of Karnaugh map technique for circuit simplification.
• Applying Boolean algebra, DeMogan’s laws, and Karnaugh maps to Altera PLD logic circuits.
• Review of Exclusive-OR (XOR) and Exclusive-NOR (XNOR) gates and parity systems.
• Applying XOR, XNOR, and parity circuits to Altera PLD-based circuits.
• Introduction to the PLD design process, PLD data sheets and the types of PLDs.
• Multiplexers, demultiplexers, decoders, and encoders.  Application to microprocessor address decoding and microcontroller input ports.
• Use of Altera University Program Board UP-2 to program and test PLD-based hardware.  All parts of future labs will implement some circuits on these boards.
• Applying encoders, decoders, demultiplexers, and multiplexers to Altera PLD-based circuits. 
• Review of flip-flops.
• Study of flip-flop ICs, and registers.  Application of flip-flop registers to microcontroller-controlled displays.
• Practical considerations for digital design, including flip-flop time parameters, flip-flop IC data sheets, automatic reset circuits, Schmitt trigger ICs, switch debouncing, sizing pull-up resistors, and driving LEDs.
• Ripple counters, synchronous counters, counters as frequency dividers, and counter ICs.  Application of counters to multi-stage counters and 7-segment display circuits.
• Applying asynchronous counters to Altera PLD-based circuits. 
• Applying multi-stage synchronous counters with 7-segment displays to Altera PLD-based circuits. 
• Applying Altera PLD to build a multi-stage synchronous counter to divide a 25MHz oscillator from the UP-2 board counters to a visibly blinking LED.
• Shift registers, parallel-to-serial conversion, serial-to-parallel conversion, and shift register ICs. 
• As time permits or as part of a make-up lab, applying Altera shift register circuits to Altera PLD-based circuits.
• Three-state output circuits, buffers, and transceivers.  Application to microprocessor data and address buses.
• Introduction to digital memory systems, types of memory devices, and memory timing diagrams.