BLG 231E

Revision as of 16:11, 27 October 2015

Oct. 26th Midterm-1 will be held in room 2106 between 13:30 - 15:30.
Oct. 6th The first homework has been posted that is due 20/10/2014 before 13:30.
Sept. 12th The class is given in the room 2106 (first floor), EEF.

BLG 231E: Digital Circuits, CRN: 12876, Tuesdays 13:30-16:30, Room: 2106 (EEF), Fall 2015.

Instructor	Mustafa Altun Email: altunmus@itu.edu.tr Tel: 02122856635 Office hours: 15:00 – 16:30 on Thursdays in Room:3005, EEF (or stop by my office any time)
Teaching Assistant	Furkan Peker Email: furkan.peker061@gmail.com Room: 3207 EEF
Grading	Homeworks: 15% 3 homeworks (5% each) Midterm Exams: 45% 2 midterms (22.5% each) during the lecture time that will on 27/10/2015 and 1/12/2015. Final Exam: 40%
Textbook	Wakerly, J. F. (2005). Digital Design Principles & Practices, 4th edition. Prentice Hall.
Reference Books	Roth Jr, C., & Kinney, L. (2013). Fundamentals of logic design. Cengage Learning. Mano, M. M., & Kime, C. R. (2008). Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, 4/E edition, 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, 15/9/2015	Introduction
Week 2, 22/9/2015	HOLIDAY, no class
Week 3, 29/9/2015	Digital logic fundamentals: gates, combinational circuits, Boolean expressions
Weeks 4, 6/10/2015	Digital logic fundamentals: truth tables, two-level forms (AND/OR/NAND/NOR), "don't cares"
Weeks 5, 13/10/2015	Logic minimization: Karnaugh maps, Quine-McCluskey method
Week 6, 20/10/2015	Quine-McCluskey method, binary decision diagrams, hazards
Weeks 7, 27/10/2015	MIDTERM I
Week 8, 3/11/2015	Combinational circuit design: building blocks (adders, multiplexers, decoders, etc.)
Week 9, 10/11/2015	Combinational circuit design: implementing Boolean and arithmetic operations
Weeks 10, 17/11/2015	Performance analysis of combinational circuits
Week 11, 24/11/2015	Sequential circuits: latches & flip-flops
Week 12, 1/12/2015	MIDTERM II
Weeks 13, 8/12/2015	Sequential circuit design: state graphs and tables, modules
Weeks 14, 15/12/2015	Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines
Weeks 15, 22/12/2015	Sequential circuit design: modules, state machines

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