Digital Logic

 

“The best thing about a Boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”

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Topics and Resources

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11/3

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Describe the truth tables of AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, and NOT gates

Translate between simple Boolean expressions, truth tables, and logic circuits

MrH Podcast - Logic Gates (12 min)

Text:  Chapter 4.1-2

Lecture Notes

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11/5

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11/5

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11/6

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Implement simple combinational circuits

MrH Podcast - Intro to Logisim (2 min)

Installing Logisim at home

Text:  Chapter 4.4

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11/6

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11/7

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 Apply the principle of abstraction to assemble circuits from replications of simpler ones

Apply the method of “OR of ANDs” to design more complex circuits

MrH Podcast - Abstraction in Digital Logic (4 min)

MrH Podcast - Abstration in Logisim: subcircuits (5 min)

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11/7

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11/10

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11/10

MrH Podcast - OR of ANDs (4 min)

Lecture Notes

Work on Lab

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11/12

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L1: Simplify Boolean expressions to simplify circuits

MrH Podcast - Boolean Algebra (8 min)

Lecture Notes

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11/13

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11/14

Finish Lab 2-2

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11/14

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11/17

Explain how a flip-flop (set-reset latch) circuit works

Build a simple memory circuit using SR flip-flops

MrH Podcast - Sequential Logic  (12 min)

Text:  Chapter 4.5

Lecture Notes

Set-Reset Flip-Flop Example

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11/17

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11/17

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11/18

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Work on 2-3

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11/18

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11/18

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Finish up labs

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11/19

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11/20

Review for Quiz

Review notes

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11/21

Quiz on Digital Logic

 

More Resources for this Unit…

Intro to Digital Logic – From Bucknell’s Exploring Electrical Engineering course;  see especially Gates, and Minterms (Or of Ands), Flip-Flops and Memory

  

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