This path needs to be completed by every student (or test out of it) as this is the foundational skills building path. Each subpage contains teacher slides, student slides, activities, and quizzes.

This is an Introduction Unit for the Semiconductor Industry, Digital Logic, Timing Systems, VLSI and Chip related stuff. 

Prerequisites:

• No explicit prerequisite course work, Electronics, Logic, or coding knowledge is not required. Come as you are. 🧠 

Topics:

• Introduction to the Semiconductor Industry

• What career opportunities are there in the Semiconductor Industry? 

• What is Digital Logic?

• How do Binary Systems work?

• What is inside a Silicon Chip?

• How to design a Chip

• How to be Awesome

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Semiconductor Industry Introduction: This is a Module focused on an introduction to the  Semiconductor Industry. 
It will cover the careers in the Semiconductor Industry.  It will introduce a high level view of how we use chip in our everyday life, how it makes our lives better, but also the risk of technology.  You will learn how chips are made. 

Modules deliverables will include: 6+ Lessons Introducing the Semiconductor Industry. About 6-12 hours of 30 min Lectures & 10+ hours of Lab & Assessment activities. Link To Module Page 

• Google Docs: 📰 Slide Presentation / 🖼️ Lesson Tutorial / ✨ Resources

• Canvas LMS Module: 🛠️ LAB Activities and 🚀 Formative & Summative Assessments 

Prerequisites:

• No explicit prerequisite course work, Electronics, Logic, or coding knowledge is required. Come as you are. 🧠

Topics:

• Semiconductor Industry Introduction

• Technology - Benefits & Risk

• Careers in the Semiconductor Industry

• High level description of how Silicon Chips are made

Digital Logic Introduction: This is a Module focused on the introduction of Digital Logic Gates and Flip/Flops.  It will cover Digital Logic Introduction, Binary Numbering systems, how Transistors make Gates, Basic logic gates like AND, OR, INV, NAND, NOT, XOR, and XNOR, Combinational Logic circuits, Multiplexers, Decoders and Encoders, Adding and Accumulators, Latches and Flip/Flops, Shifting, and Counting.

Modules deliverables will include: (about 4 hours of 30 min Lectures & 8+ hours of Lab & Assessment activities) 

• Google Docs: 📰 Slide Presentation / 🖼️ Lesson Tutorial / ✨ Resources

• Canvas LMS Module: 🛠️ LAB Activities and 🚀 Formative & Summative Assessments 

Topics:

• Digital Logic Introduction

• Transistor & Semiconductor  Introduction

• Logic Gates Introduction

• Digital Logic Gates & Flip/Flops - AND'ing and OR'ing the World

• Multiplexer, Decoders, Encoders, Adding, Accumulating, & Counting

Digital Logic Introduction to 555 Chip: Timers and how they generate Pulse, Astable, Monostable, Bistable (flip-flop) and Schmitt trigger (inverter) mode.

Modules deliverables will include: (about 2 hours of 30 min Lectures & 4+ hours of Lab & Assessment activities) 

• Google Docs: 📰 Slide Presentation / 🖼️ Lesson Tutorial / ✨ Resources

• Canvas LMS Module: 🛠️ LAB Activities and 🚀 Formative & Summative Assessments  

Topics:

• 555 Introduction and Timer Labs

Digital Logic - Meet A Few More Chips: Counting, Shifting, and Math - This is a Module focused on The different ways to count, and shift.  It will also focus on more complex chips like an ALU doing math. 

Modules deliverables will include: (about 2 hours of 30 min Lectures & 4+ hours of Lab & Assessment activities) 

• Google Docs: 📰 Slide Presentation / 🖼️ Lesson Tutorial / ✨ Resources

• Canvas LMS Module: 🛠️ LAB Activities and 🚀 Formative & Summative Assessments 

Topics:

• Counters, Shift, and ALU

Digital Logic - VHDL/Verilog Introduction: This is a Module focused on the relationship between  schematic and text based description.  it will explore VHDL and Verilog implementations ot some of the logic studied in previous modules. 

Modules deliverables will include: (about 2 hours of 30 min Lectures & 6+ hours of Lab & Assessment activities) 

• Google Docs: 📰 Slide Presentation / 🖼️ Lesson Tutorial / ✨ Resources

• Canvas LMS Module: 🛠️ LAB Activities and 🚀 Formative & Summative Assessments 

Topics:

• Digital Logic - VHDL/Verilog Introduction

• VHDL/Verilog  Build some of the same logic  Schematic circuits using VHDL/Verilog