Course detail
Digital Circuits
FEKT-BPC-DIOAcad. year: 2024/2025
Fundamentals of digital circuits. VHDL language and general syntax. Concurrent statements, design methodology and examples. Logic hazards, their elimination and avoiding. Sequential statements, design methodology and examples. Metastability. State machine theory and design methodology. Translation of VHDL code to schematic representation (methodology understanding). Practical design of sequential systems and state machines.
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Entry knowledge
- Describe the basic logic gates NAND, NOR, AND, OR, INV – logic functions, truth tables etc.
- Conversion from various number representations
- Describe CMOS technology process and how the NMOS and PMOS transistor work.
- Fundamentals of flowcharts and their utilization
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
70 points for final exam.
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
Student will be able to:
- explain fundamentals of combinational and sequential circuits and how these circuits manually design
- describe digital circuits by using VHDL
- design state machines and their design and methodology
- draw the schematic representation from VHDL code
- explain synchronous circuit design methodology
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Elearning