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BACHELORS WITH APPLIED COMPUTING AS MINOR

(FOR STUDENTS WITH MAJOR IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)


1st SEMESTER
ACP124N APPLIED COMPUTING _ DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
CREDITS: THEORY: 4; PRACTICAL: 2
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• To introduce concepts of number systems and Boolean algebra.
• To familiarize students with the operation and use of basic digital logic gates as well as the design and
minimization of combinational logic circuits.
• To introduce the concept of microprocessors and familiarize them with basic operation of a CPU.
THEORY (4 CREDITS)
UNIT 1:
Introduction to Digital and Analog Quantities, Binary Digits, Logic Levels, Pulse, Waveforms, Clock and Timing
Diagrams (1 Hour)
Number Systems - Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal and their Conversions. (4 Hours)
Unsigned Binary Arithmetic, Ones Complement, Twos Complement. Signed Numbers and their arithmetic. Binary Coded
Decimal. Error Codes-Parity Code (4 Hours)
Logic Gates—AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR Gates. (2 Hours)
Boolean Algebra: Boolean Operations, Laws and Rules of Boolean Algebra, DeMorgan's Theorems. Constructing a
Boolean Expression for a Logic Circuit, Logic Simplification. (5 Hours)
UNIT 2:
SOP and POS forms, Karnaugh Maps and minimization upto 4 variables, Don't care conditions (4 Hours) Combinational
Logic Circuits: AND-OR, AND-OR-INVERT, XOR and XNOR logic, Converting Boolean Expression or Truth Table to
a Logic Circuit, NAND and NOR as Universal Gates (4 Hours)
Half Adder, Full Adder, 4-bit Parallel Binary Adder, Comparator, Binary Decoder, Encoder, Multiplexer, Demultiplexer
(7 Hours)
UNIT 3:
Latches: SR Latch, D Latch, Gated SR and D Latch (2 Hours) Flip Flops: Difference between Flip Flop and Latch, Level
vs Edge-Triggered. D Flip Flops, JK Flip Flops and their operation (4 Hours)
Characteristics and Applications of Flip Flops (storage, counting), Intro to 555 Timer (2 Hours)
Shift Registers - Serial and Parallel (4-bit) (3 Hours) Counters: Synchronous and Asynchronous (2/3 bit). Decade
Counter, Johnson counter (4 Hours)
UNIT 4:
von Neumann Architecture: Block Diagram, CPU, Memory, I/O Ports and Buses, Bus Master, Bus Contention: Shared
Signal Lines and Tri-State Outputs, Fan-out, Buffers, Device Selection, System Timing.
Microprocessor, ALU, Control/Timing Unit, Decode Unit, Register Set, Instruction Execution Cycle. Memory: Memory
Bus, Read / Write operations and Addressing Modes. I/O: Polling, Interrupts and DMA. Intro to Types of CPU
Instructions.
Microcontrollers: Architecture, Registers, Functional Units and Peripherals. System on Chip (SoC): Block Diagram,
Functional Elements, Difference between Microprocessor, Microcontroller and SoC. (15 Hours)
TEXTBOOK:
1. Thomas Floyd, Digital Fundamentals, 11th Edition (2015), Pearson.

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