UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ELE 215 – DIGITAL TECHNIQUES (4 CREDITS – HOURS) I OBJECTIVES: This course is an introductory course in digital electronics. Its intent is to provide the student with a background in the basic digital building blocks required for microprocessors and advanced digital circuits. II CONTACT HOURS PER WEEK: Lecture ‐ 2 hours Tutorial ‐ 1 hour Laboratory ‐ 2 hours III COURSE CONTENT UNIT 1 Algerbra WEEK 1 Boolean Algebra and Number Systems WEEK 2 Logic families, design principles (analysis synthesis) UNIT 2 Combinational Circuits as Digital System Building Blocks. WEEK 3 Standard gate Assemblies. Arithmetics functions and Logical operations with gates. WEEK 4 Minimisation Techniques (SOP, POS, Truth table Karnaugh maps, MC Chuskey etc. WEEK 5 Digital Systems. Binary adders, subtracter. Decoder, Demultiplexer. Data Selector, Multiplexer, Encoder. WEEK 6 ROM, RAM, PROM, EPROM etc.
