Programmable Digital Systems

Digital electronics, basic elements, advantages of digital electronic systems implementation. Digital systems design technologies: printed circuit boards with logic parts and programmable devices.

Logic voltage levels, positive and negative logic. Basic logic gates, multiplexers, decoders, flip-flops, registers and memory. Connections of digital blocks: serial, parallel and feedback with examples of typical digital circuits. Description of digital circuit with state diagram and hardware-description language.

Operation of programmable circuits, microcontrollers and a simple microprocessor. Practical implementation of digital systems on programmable development board. Comparison of digital systems implemented with processor and custom digital circuit.

Knowledge of various digital systems and building blocks, specifically programmable systems. Understanding schematic description of the digital system and state diagram.

Practical skills for design of a small digital system using programmable logic.

Lectures and laboratory practice for learning basic theory and practical implementation of the digital systems.