DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Gaetano PALUMBOExpected Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to understand the implemntation and the behavior of the various digital circuit, not limited to teh ones treated in the course.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to analyze and design digital circuits regardless the technology adopted.
3. Making judgments: the student will be able to choice independently the topological solutions and the most suited design methodologies for teh application under consideration.
4. Communication and learning skills: Upon completion of the course, the student is expected to acquire the ability to convey the knowledge acquired to their interlocutors in a clear and complete way and will also be able to rework the knowledge to extend it to situations not explicitly addressed, being also able to learn independently.
Course Structure
- frontal lessons where the retical parts are developped and presented in details;
- exercitations where the theoretical part are applied in practical cases, in order to develop, consolidate and putting in practice the theoretical topics.
Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes
with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
- Introduction to short-channel MOS model and circuit layout
- Digital circuits parameters and performance
- CMOS logic families (static, dynamic and transmission gates)
- Power consumption in digital circuits
- Current mode logic circuits (bipolar and MOS)
- Sequential circuits
- Registers
- Counters
- Oscillators
- Pulse generators
- Schmitt Trigger
- Semiconductor Memories
Textbook Information
2. N. Weste, D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design (3° edition), Addison Wesley, 2004.
3. M. Alioto, G. Palumbo, Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic (CML, ECL and SCL Digital Circuits), Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2005.
4. M. Alioto, E. Consoli, G. Palumbo, Flip-Flop Design in Nanometer CMOS (High Speed to Low Energy), Springer, December 2014.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MOS modeling | |
| 2 | Digital circuits parameters and performance | |
| 3 | CMOS logic families | |
| 4 | Current mode logic circuits | |
| 5 | Sequential circuits | |
| 6 | Registers, Counters, Oscillators, Pulse generators, Schmitt Trigger | |
| 7 | Semiconductor Memories |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Finally, learning assessment may also be changed (for example carried out on line), should the conditions require it.