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SEE1223: Digital Electronics

This document provides an introduction to the SEE1223: Digital Electronics course. The course will cover topics like number systems, logic gates, logic design, MSI circuits, flip-flops, counters, registers, and memory devices over 20 hours. Students will learn the basics of digital electronics and be exposed to the Altera Quartus II design software. The document lists textbooks and provides a brief history of digital electronics, explaining key developments like the transistor, integrated circuit, microprocessor, and advances in transistor counts. It also distinguishes analog and digital signals and systems.

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SEE1223: Digital Electronics

This document provides an introduction to the SEE1223: Digital Electronics course. The course will cover topics like number systems, logic gates, logic design, MSI circuits, flip-flops, counters, registers, and memory devices over 20 hours. Students will learn the basics of digital electronics and be exposed to the Altera Quartus II design software. The document lists textbooks and provides a brief history of digital electronics, explaining key developments like the transistor, integrated circuit, microprocessor, and advances in transistor counts. It also distinguishes analog and digital signals and systems.

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SEE1223: Digital Electronics

Introduction
Ab Al-Hadi Ab Rahman , Zulkifil Md Yusof
Dept. of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Course Information
• This course introduces students to
– number systems (2 hours)
– basic gates (3 hours)
– Logic Design (3 hours)
– MSI circuits (3 hours)
– flip-flops (3 hours)
– Counters and registers (3 hours)
– Memory devices (1 hours)
• Students will also be exposed to the latest digital
electronics design software – Altera Quartus II
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References
1. Thomas L. Floyd, "Digital Fundamentals" 9h
Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2007 **
2. Tocci & Widmer, "Digital Systems - Principles
and Applications", 10 Ed., Prentice- Hall,
2007.
3. M. Morris Mano, "Digital Design", 4'h Ed.
Prentice-Hall, 2007.
** Textbook that we will use in class

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Introduction to Digital Electronics
• Why study digital electronics?
• Why is it important?
• What is the most basic component of digital
electronics?
• Examples of digital electronic systems?

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History of Digital Electronics
• 1947: First transistor at
Bell Labs by Bardeen and
Brattain
• 1950: Junction transistor
by William Shockley
• 1954: First silicon
transistor from Texas
Instruments
• 1955: Field Effect
Transistor (FET)
developed at Bell Labs
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History of Digital Electronics (cont.)
• 1958: First IC by Jack Kilby
of Texas Instruments
• 1960: First MOSFET
fabricated by Kahng of Bell
Labs
• 1963: CMOS invented by
Frank Wanlass of Fairchild
Semiconductor
• 1971: First Microprocessor,
the Intel 4004 with 2300
transistors
• 2006: Intel Core 2 Duo with
820 million transistors
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Analog and Digital signals
• Analog: quantity that has continuous values
• Digital: quantity that has discrete values

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Analog and Digital signals
• Analog: quantity that has continuous values
• Digital: quantity that has discrete values

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Analog vs Digital Signals
• Analog signals can take any voltage values, i.e.
1V, 2.5V, 23V, 0.34V, etc.
• Digital signals can take only two voltage
values, i.e. 5V and 0V (or any two distinct
values)
• For simplicity, 5V is referred as “1” and 0V is
referred as “0”

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Advantages of digital systems
• Advantages of digital systems
– Easy to manipulate digital data
– Less error prone/not much affected by noise
– Easy to store data
• Disadvantages of digital systems
– Cannot transmit over wireless
– Lose some information (usually not critical)

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Analog and Digital Systems
• Analog system: microphone-speaker, analog
radio
• Digital system: computer, calculator
• Analog and Digital system: hand-phone, digital
TV

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