Course Number: VEE235

Course Title: Digital Electronics II

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 

General Objective

This course serves as a continuation study of digital electronics. It includes the study of digital function circuits such as shift & storage register circuits, memory circuits,
counter circuits, adder/subtractor circuits, A/D & D/A converters, and data selector & distribution circuits.  

Specific Objectives

Students will be able to:

 1. describe the basic operating principles of registers and memory circuits.
 2. identify the purpose and probe the input and output of a 4-bit storage register.
 3. identify the purpose and probe the input and output of a 4-bit shift register.
 4. identify the purpose and probe the input and output of an 8-bit shift register.
 5. describe the normal operation and the characteristics of a 64-bit memory circuit. 
 6. describe how counting circuits perform arithmetic functions.
 7. recognize the normal operation of a ripple counter circuits.
 8. describe the purpose of an up counter circuits and probe its outputs.
 9. describe the purpose of a down counter circuits and probe its outputs.
10. describe the function and the operating characteristics of a 4-bit adder circuit.
11. describe the normal operation of a 4-bit subtractor circuit.
12. explain the basic operating principles of conversion and data circuits.
13. identify the purpose of a D/A conversion circuit and its operating characteristics.
14. identify the purpose and describe the basic operation of a data selector circuit and measure its output signals.
15. describe the function of a data distribution circuit and its operating characteristics and measure its output signals.