BLG 231E: Digital Circuits

Announcements

Jan. 15th To see your final grades click here.
Dec. 16th The third homework has been posted that is due 30/12/2016 before 9:30.
Nov. 18th The second homework has been posted that is due 2/12/2016 before 9:30.
Oct. 5th The first homework has been posted that is due 21/10/2016 before 9:30.
Aug. 26th The class is given in the room 5204 (second floor), EEF.

BLG 231E: Digital Circuits, CRN: 10647, Fridays 09:30-12:30, Room: 5204 (EEF), Fall 2016.

Instructor	Mustafa Altun Email: altunmus@itu.edu.tr Tel: 02122856635 Office hours: 15:00 – 16:00 on Tuesdays in Room:3005, EEF (or stop by my office any time)
Teaching Assistant	Furkan Peker Email: furkan.peker061@gmail.com Room: 3207 EEF Ensar Vahapoğlu Email: ensarvahapoglu@gmail.com Room: 3007 EEF
Grading	Quizzes: 10% 2 pop-up quizzes (5% each) - no prior announcement of quiz dates and times Homeworks: 10% 3 homeworks (3.3% each) Midterm Exams: 40% 2 midterms (20% each) during the lecture time that will on 4/11/2016 and 9/12/2016. Final Exam: 40%
Textbook	Wakerly, J. F. (20XX). Digital Design Principles & Practices. Prentice Hall.
Reference Books	Roth Jr, C., & Kinney, L. (20XX). Fundamentals of logic design. Cengage Learning. Mano, M. M., & Kime, C. R. (20XX). Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals. Prentice Hall.
Policies	Homeworks are due at the beginning of class. Late homeworks will be downgraded by 20% for each day passed the due date. Exams are in closed-notes and closed-books format. To be eligible of taking the final or the resit exam, you should take both midterms and your midterm average should be at least 25 (out of 100).

Date	Topic
Week 1, 23/9/2016	Introduction
Week 2, 30/9/2016	Digital logic fundamentals: gates, combinational circuits, Boolean expressions
Week 3, 7/10/2016	Digital logic fundamentals: truth tables, two-level forms (AND/OR/NAND/NOR), "don't cares"
Weeks 4, 14/10/2016	Logic minimization: Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey method
Weeks 5, 21/10/2016	Quine-McCluskey method, binary decision diagrams, hazards
Week 6, 28/10/2016	Combinational circuit design: building blocks (adders, multiplexers, decoders, etc.)
Weeks 7, 4/11/2016	MIDTERM I
Week 8, 11/11/2016	HOLIDAY, no class
Week 9, 18/11/2016	Combinational circuit design: implementing Boolean and arithmetic operations
Weeks 10, 25/11/2016	Area-Delay Performance analysis of combinational circuits
Week 11, 2/12/2016	Sequential circuits: latches & flip-flops
Week 12, 9/12/2016	MIDTERM II
Weeks 13, 16/12/2016	Sequential circuit design: state graphs and tables, modules
Weeks 14, 23/12/2016	Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines
Weeks 15, 30/12/2016	Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines