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EC-303 · DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN/Official Syllabus

DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN (EC-303) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Number Systems

  • Decimal, Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal systems
  • conversion from one base to another
  • Codes-BCD, Excess- 3, Gray Reflected ASCII, EBCDIC
  • Logic gates and binary operations- AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, Exclusive–OR and Exclusive–NOR
  • Implementations of Logic Functions using gates
  • NAND–NOR implementations – Multi level gate implementations- Multi output gate implementations
  • Boolean postulates and laws – De-Morgan’s Theorem - Principle of Duality
  • Boolean function, Canonical and standard forms
  • Minimization of Boolean functions, Minterm,Maxterm, Sum of Products (SOP), Product of Sums (POS)
  • Karnaugh map Minimization, Don’t care conditions
  • Quine-McCluskey method of minimization
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Unit 2

Combinational logic circuits

  • Half adder – Full Adder – Half subtractor - Full subtractor
  • Parallelbinary adder, parallel binary Subtractor
  • Fast Adder - Carry Look Ahead adder
  • Serial. Adder/Subtractor
  • BCD adder
  • Binary Multiplier – Binary Divider
  • Multiplexer/De-multiplexer
  • decoder - encoder
  • parity checker – parity generators
  • codeconverters
  • Magnitude Comparator
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Unit 3

Sequential Logic Design

  • Building blocks like S-R, JK and Master-Slave JK FF, Edge triggered FF
  • Finite state machines
  • Design of synchronous FSM
  • Algorithmic State Machines charts
  • Designing synchronous circuits like Pulse train generator, Pseudo Random Binary Sequence generator, Clock generation
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Unit 4

Registers and Counters

  • Asynchronous Ripple or serial counter
  • Asynchronous Up/Down counter
  • Synchronous counters – Synchronous Up/Downcounters – Programmable counters
  • Design of Synchronous counters: state diagram-State table –State minimization –State assignment - Excitation table and maps-Circuit. Implementation - Modulo–n counter
  • Registers – shift registers - Universal shift registers
  • Shift register counters – Ring counter – Shift counters - Sequence generators
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Unit 5

Logic Families and Semiconductor Memories

  • TTL NAND gate, Specifications, Noise margin, Propagation delay, fan-in, fan-out, Tristate TTL, ECL, CMOS families and their interfacing
  • Memory elements
  • Conceptof Programmable logic devices like FPGA
  • Logic implementation using Programmable Devices

Laboratory Experiments

  • Study of different basic digital logic gates and verification of their Truth Table.
  • Study and verification of the law of Boolean Algebra and De-Morgan’s Theorem.
  • Construction and verification of various combinational circuits such as Half Adder, Full Adder, Half & Full Subtractor.
  • Study of Multiplexer, De-multiplexer.
  • Study of Different Code Converters, Encoder, Decoder.
  • Construction and verification of various types of Flip-Flops using gates and IC’s.
  • Construction and Verification of different Shift Registers.
  • Construction and verification of different types of Counters.
  • Study of important TTL technologies, Verifications of important TTL Circuit Parameters.

Reference Books

  • Digital Principles and Applications — Malvino, Leach — TMH
  • Digital Logic Design — M. Morris Mano — PHI
  • Modern Digital Design — R.P. Jain — TMH
  • Digital Circuits and Design — S. Salivahanan, S. Arivazhagan — Vikas Publishing
  • Digital Circuits, An Introduction Part -1 & 2 — D. Roy Chaudhuri — Eureka Publisher
  • Digital Systems, Principles and Applications — Ronald J Tocci — PHI
  • Digital Integrated Electronics — Taub, Schilling — TMH
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