EEF 205E: Introduction to Logic Design

Syllabus

EEF 205E: Introduction to Logic Design, CRN: 14414, Fridays 8:30-11:30, Room: 6309 (EEF), Fall 2026.

Instructor	Mustafa Altun Email: altunmus@itu.edu.tr Tel: 02122856635 Office hours: 15:00 – 16:00 on Wednesdays in Room:3005, EEF (or stop by my office any time)
Teaching Assistant	Fatma Betül Fişne Email: fisne20@itu.edu.tr
Grading	Homeworks: 10% 4 homeworks (2.5% each) Midterm Exams: 50% 2 midterms (25% each) during the lecture time that will on 13/11/2026 and 18/12/2026. Final Exam: 40%
Textbook	Wakerly, J. F. (20XX). Digital Design Principles & Practices. Prentice Hall.
Reference Books	Roth Jr, C., & Kinney, L. (20XX). Fundamentals of logic design. Cengage Learning. Mano, M. M., & Kime, C. R. (20XX). Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals. Prentice Hall.
Policies	Homeworks are due at the beginning of class. Late homeworks will be downgraded by 20% for each day passed the due date. Exams are in closed-notes and closed-books format. To be eligible of taking the final or the resit exam, your average, excluding the final, should be at least 40% of the class average. To pass the class, your overall average should be at least 50% of the class average.

Date	Topic
Week 1, 2/10/2026	Introduction
Week 2, 9/10/2026	Digital logic fundamentals: gates, combinational circuits, Boolean expressions
Week 3, 16/10/2026	Digital logic fundamentals: truth tables, two-level forms (AND/OR/NAND/NOR), "don't cares"
Weeks 4, 23/10/2026	Logic minimization: Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey method
Weeks 5, 30/10/2026	Logic minimization: Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey method
Week 6, 6/11/2026	Combinational circuit design: building blocks (adders, multiplexers, decoders, etc.)
Weeks 7, 13/11/2026	MIDTERM I
Week 8, 20/11/2026	HOLIDAY!
Week 9, 27/11/2026	Combinational circuit design: implementing Boolean and arithmetic operations
Weeks 10, 4/12/2026	Sequential circuits: latches & flip-flops
Week 11, 11/12/2026	Sequential circuit design: state graphs and tables, modules
Week 12, 18/12/2026	MIDTERM II
Weeks 13, 25/12/2026	Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines

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