Digital electronics

General Information

• Language of lectures: Portuguese
• Name in Portuguese : Eletrônica digital
• Requisites: Electronic circuits I (Eletrônica básica i) and Introduction to computing engineering (Introdução à engenharia de computação)
• Credits: 4
• Hours per semester (h): 75
  • Lecture (h): 60
  • Laboratory (h): 15

Schedule at glance

1. Introduction
2. Number systems and Boolean algebra
3. Combinational and sequential logic circuits
4. Digital arithmetic, counters and registers
5. Circuit logic families
6. Introduction to VHDL and PLD

Bibliography

• [1] Tocci R, Sistemas digitais, princípios e aplicações, 11 ed. Prentice Hall, 2011 (cn: 621.382:004 T631s 11.ed.)
• [2] Floyd T, Sistemas digitais: fundamentos e aplicações, 9 ed. Bookman, 2007 (cn: 621.32 F645s 9.ed.)
• [3] Wakerly J, Digital design: principles and practices, 2 ed, (link*), Prentice Hall, 2006 (cn: 621.382 W149d 4.ed.)
• [4] Pedroni V, Eletrônica digital moderna e VHDL, Elsevier, 2010 (cn: 621.382:004 P372e)

cn: call number in the library of the university (link)

Software

Electronic Work Bench (link, introduction)

Activities

Reading

• Chapter 1 of [1] (pages 1-21)
• Chapter 2 of [1] (pages 23-42)
• Sections 2.1-2.4 and 2.11-2.12 of Chapter 2 of [3] (optional)
• Introduction and Sections 3.1-3.16 of Chapter 3 of [1] (pages 48-84)
• Introduction and Sections 4.1-4.8 of Chapter 4 of [1] (pages 100-129)

Readings above will be evaluated in the first term

• Introduction and Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.4-5.20 of Chapter 5 of [1] (pages 174-215)
• Introduction and sections 6.1-6.16 of Chapter 6 of [1] (pages 252-283)
• Introduction and Sections 7.1-7.10 (pages 305-345), 7.15-7.17 (pages 377-389) of Chapter 7 of [1]

Readings above will be evaluated in the second term

• Introduction and Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.7, 8.8, and 8.12 of Chapter 8 of [1]
• Introduction and Sections 9.1-9.4 9.6-9.8 and 9.10-9.14 of Chapter 9 of [1]

Readings above will be evaluated in the third term

Problems

• Problems 1.1-1.13 of [1] (pages 21-22)
• Problems 2,10, 2.13, 2.15-2.26, 2.28, 2.29, 2.31, 2.32, 2.34, and 2.36-2.40 of [1] (pages 43-46)
• Problems 3.1-3.5, 3.8, 3.9, 3.12, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19, 3.22-3.32, 3.35-3.38, 3.41, and 3.42 of [1] (pages 93-97)
• Problems 4.1-4.24, 4.26-4.29, 4.31, and 4.34-4.36 of [1] (pages 163-169)

Problems above will be evaluated in the first term

• Problems 5.1-5.5, 5.7-5.9, 5.11-5.24, 5.26, 5.27, 5.30-5.34, 5.36, 5.38-5.42, and 5.45-5.48 of [1] (pages 239-246)
• Problems 6.4-6.8, 6.10-6.22, 6.24, and 6.26-6.36 of [1] (pages 299-303)
• Problems 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7-7.12, 7.25, 7.26, 7.31, 7.32, 7.35 and 37-48

Problems above will be evaluated in the second term

• Problems 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 8.18, 8.19, 8.31, 8..32 and 8.33 of Chapter 8 of [1]
• Problems 9.1-9.6, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.12-9.16, 9.27, 9.28, 9.29, 9.30a, 9.31a, 9.33-9.37, 9.39, 9.40, 9.41, 9.53a and 9.56 of Chapter 9 of [1]

Problems above will be evaluated in the third term

Additional activities

Additional activities will be posted here

Relevant readings

• Graphene transistors (link)
• Large-scale chemical assembly of atomically thin transistors and circuits (link)
• Boolean algebra and logic design (link)
• Aristotle's prior analytics and Boole's laws of thought (link)
• From Aristotle to Pentium (link)
• The calculus of logic (link)
• Applications of Boolean algebra: Claude Shannon and circuit design (link)