Subject Code

Digital Electronics

Teaching Scheme
Lectures : 4 Hrs /Week
Practical : 2 Hrs /Week

Examination Scheme
Paper : 50 Marks
Online : 50 Marks
Practical : 50 Marks
Credits : 5

Course Objectives
1. To acquaint the students with the fundamental principles of two-valued logic and
various
devices used to implement logical operations on variables.
2. To lay the foundation for further studies in areas such as communication, VLSI,
computer,
microprocessor.
Unit I : Combinational Logic Design

8L

Standard repr esentations for logic functions, k map repr esentation of logic
functions
(SOP and POS
forms),
minimization
of logical functions for min-terms and max-terms (upto 4
conditions,
Design
variables), dont
careExamples: Arithmetic Circuits, BCD - to 7 segment
decoder,
Codetheir
converters.
Adders and
use as subtractor, look ahead carry, ALU, Digital
Comparator, Parity Multiplexers and their use in combinational logic designs,
generators/checkers,
multiplexer
De- use in combinational logic designs, Decoders, demultiplexer
multiplexerstrees,
and their
trees.
Introduction
to
Quine
McCluskey method.
Unit II : Sequential Logic Design

8L

1 Bit Memory Cell, Clocked SR, JK, MS J-K flip flop, D and T flip-flops. Use of
preset and clear
terminals,
Excitation Table for flip flops. Conversion of flip flops. Application of Flip
flops: Registers,
Shift
registers,
Counters
(ring counters, twisted ring counters), Sequence
Generators,
ripple synchronous
counters,
up/down
counters,
counters, lock out, Clock Skew, Clock jitter.
Effect on synchronous
designs.
Unit III : State Machines

8L

Basic design steps- State diagram, State table, State reduction, State assignment,
Mealy and
Moore
machines representation, Implementation, finite state machine
implementation,
Sequence
detector.
Introduction
to Algorithmic state machines- construction of ASM chart
sequential
circuits
and realization
for
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Unit IV : Digital Logic Families

Classification of logic families, Characteristics of digital ICs-Speed of
operation,
power fan
dissipation,
figure
of merit,
in, fan out, current and voltage parameters,
noise immunity,
temperatures
and operating
power supply requirements.TTL logic. Operation of
TTLwired
NAND
gate,open
active
pull output, unconnected inputs. Tri-State
up,
AND,
collector
logic. CMOS
logic
gates,
CMOSunconnected inputs, wired logic , open
inverter,
NAND,
NOR
and
Comparison
table
of Characteristics of TTL, CMOS, ECL,
drainTTL.
output.
Interfacing
CMOS
RTL, I2L, DCTL.
Unit V : Programmable Logic Devices and Semiconductor
Memories
Programmable logic devices: Detail architecture, Study of PROM,
combinational
circuits using PLDs. General Architecture of FPGA
PAL, PLA, Designing
and CPLD memory
Semiconductor
memories:
organization and oper ation, expanding memory
size,
Classification
and
characteristics
of memories,
RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM,
NVRAM, SRAM,DRAM.
Unit VI : Introduction to Microcontroller 8051
7L

6L

Microprocessors and Microcontrollers comparison, 8051

architecture,
Pin description,
addressing
modes, instruction
set of 8051,
concepts of Counters and Timers
with the
help of status
registers,
Serial
communication
, Port
Structure and Interrupts. Simple
programming
examples for addition,
subtraction, multiplication.
Text Books
1. R.P. Jain , Modern digital electronics , 3rd edition , 12threprint Tata
McGraw Hill Publication,
2007.
2. Stephen Brown, Fundamentals of digital logic design with VHDL
1stedition, Tata
McGraw Hill
Publication
2002.
3. Muhammas Mazidi, Janice Mazidi and Rolin McKinlay, The 8051
Microcontroller
and Embedded
Systems
using Assembly
and C, Pearson Education, 2nd edition.

Reference Books
st
1. A. Anand Kumar, Fundamentals of digital circuits e1dition,
Prentice Hall of India, 2001
th
2. Wakerly Pearon, Digital Design: Principles and Practices, 3 rd edition,
reprint, 4Pearson
Education, 2004
3. Myke Pr edko, Programming and customizing the 8051
microcontroller, Tata McGraw Hill 2003 .
List of Practicals
At
least&
seven
practical
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Table. as a Multiplexer. (Refer Data-Sheet).
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