EET224L DIGITAL COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS LABORATORY

COURSE OUTLINE

EET 224L: Digital Computer Fundamentals Laboratory

Credit and Contact Hrs. (Lecture/Laboratory): 1 credits, 90 minutes contact per week.

Course Description: Laboratory to accompany EET 224: Digital Computer Fundamentals. Laboratory investigation of the various gates, circuits and applications studied in EET 224.

Prerequisites:None

Co-Requisite:EET 224

Textbook(s): Amin R. Ismail and Victor Rooney, Digital Concepts and Applications Laboratory Manual, Saunders College Publishing, 1990.

References(s):

Amin R. Ismail and Victor Rooney, Digital Concepts and Applications, Saunders College Publishing, 1990

TTL Data Manual, Signetics Logic Products, 1987

PAL Device Data Book, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), 1992

PALASM 4 Reference Guider, Advanced Micro Device (AMD), 1992

Course Coordinator: Amin R. Ismail, Associate Professor

Goals/Objectives: To illustrate classroom topics using a "hands-on" approach to the design, construction, and testing of digital logic circuits

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic:

Introduction to Digital Test Equipment (3 hrs.)o

Simple logic gates and circuits (3 hrs.)

Circuit reduction techniques (3 hrs.)

NAND and NOR logic (3 hrs.)

Adders (3 hrs.)

Comparators (3 hrs.)

Encoders and Decoders (3 hrs.)

Multiplexers and Demultiplexers (3 hrs.)

Flip-flops and sequential logic (3 hrs.)

Asynchronous counters (3 hrs.)

Synchronous counters (3 hrs.)

Registers (3 hrs.)

Computer usage: Students are required to prepare all Laboratory Reports using Microsoft Word. All schematic diagrams are drawn using OrCAD or a similar ECAD software package.

Laboratory projects: The course topics listed above are experiments performed in the Laboratory.

Oral and written communication requirements: Students are required to submit a professional lab report for each experiment completed.

Calculus usage: None

Library usage: None