BLG 231E: Digital Circuits

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Announcements

  • Oct. 20th Midterm-1 will be held in rooms 2104 and 5305 between 15:30 - 17:30.
  • Oct. 14th The second homework has been posted that is due 4/11/2014 before 13:30.
  • Sept. 24th The first homework has been posted that is due 8/10/2014 before 16:30.
  • Sept. 7th The class is given in the room 2104 (first floor), EEF.

Syllabus

BLG 231E: Digital Circuits, CRN: 11043, Tuesdays 13:30-16:30, Room: 2104 (EEF), Fall 2014.
Instructor

Mustafa Altun

  • Email: altunmus@itu.edu.tr
  • Tel: 02122856635
  • Office hours: 15:00 – 16:30 on Thursdays in Room:3005, EEF (or stop by my office any time)
Teaching Assistant

Salih Vehbi Cömert

  • Email: vehbicomert@gmail.com
  • Room: 3009 EEF
Grading
  • Homeworks: 15%
    • 3 homeworks (5% each)
  • Midterm Exams: 45%
    • 2 midterms (22.5% each) during the lecture time that will on 21/10/2014 and 25/11/2014.
  • Final Exam: 40%
Textbook
  • Wakerly, J. F. (2005). Digital Design Principles & Practices, 4th edition. Prentice Hall.
Reference Books
  • Roth Jr, C., & Kinney, L. (2013). Fundamentals of logic design. Cengage Learning.
  • Mano, M. M., & Kime, C. R. (2008). Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, 4/E edition, 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, you should take both midterms and your midterm average should be at least 25 (out of 100).

Weekly Course Plan

Date
Topic
Week 1, 9/9/2014 Introduction
Week 2, 16/9/2014 Digital logic fundamentals: gates, combinational circuits, Boolean expressions
Week 3, 23/9/2014 Digital logic fundamentals: truth tables, two-level forms (AND/OR/NAND/NOR), "don't cares"
Weeks 4, 30/9/2014 Logic minimization: Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey method
Weeks 5, 7/10/2014 HOLIDAY!, no class
Week 6, 14/10/2014 Quine-McCluskey method, binary decision diagrams, hazards
Weeks 7, 21/10/2014 MIDTERM I
Week 8, 28/10/2014 Combinational circuit design: building blocks (adders, multiplexers, decoders, etc.)
Week 9, 4/11/2014 Combinational circuit design: arithmetic operations
Weeks 10, 11/11/2014 Sequential circuits: latches & flip-flops
Week 11, 18/11/2014 Sequential circuits: latches & flip-flops
Week 12, 25/11/2014 MIDTERM II
Weeks 13, 2/12/2014 Sequential circuit design: state graphs and tables, modules
Weeks 14, 9/12/2014 Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines

Course Materials

Homeworks & Solutions Exams
Homework 1 & Solutions
Homework 2
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