Senior Lecturer dr. eng. Octavian Creţ

 

LOGIC DESIGN

1st year of study, Automation, Computer Science and Information Technology sections, teaching in Romanian and in English, 1st semester

 

STRUCTURE

2 hrs courses / week

2 hr laboratory / week

 

 

GRADES
The total Logic Design exam points: 100, representing grade 10

70 points – exam (E)

30 points – laboratory test (L)

 

Grade computing formula: G = (E + L) / 10; G is rounded up to the nearest integer

Pass conditions: existence of L and L ³ 14 and E ³ 32

 

  1. SYLLABUS
  2. LABORATORY

 

SYLLABUS (Top)

Course goals: Acquisition and practice of Logic Design with digital components.

Keywords: Logic Functions; Boolean Algebra; Karnaugh Maps; Combinational Logic Circuits; Sequential Logic Circuits; FPGA devices

References

Contemporary Logic Design, Randy H. Katz, Benjamin Cunnings/Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 2005

Digital Design Principles and Practices, John F. Wakerly, Prentice-Hall, 2000

Logic Design, Peter A. Maurer, University of South Florida, USA

Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design with VHDL, Enoch Hwang

Circuite integrate digitale, Gh. Stefan, V. Bistriceanu, Probleme, proiectare, Ed. Albastră, 2000

Proiectarea sistemelor numerice folosind tehnologia FPGA, S. Nedevschi, Z. Baruch, O. Creţ, Ed. Mediamira, Cluj-Napoca, 1999

Sisteme de calcul reconfigurabile, O. Creţ, Ed. U.T. Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2005

Sisteme numerice cu circuite integrate, Culegere de probleme, Sanda Maican, Editura Tehnică, 1980

Systèmes numériques câblés et microprogrammés, André Stauffer, 1989, Presses polytechniques romandes, Lausanne, Suisse

 

Aims
  1. Analyze and synthesize combinational systems.
  2. Analyze and synthesize synchronous and asynchronous sequential machines.
  3. Utilize programmable devices such as FPGAs and PLDs to implement digital system designs.
  4. Apply digital system design principles and descriptive techniques.
  5. Understand timing issues in digital systems and know how to study these via digital circuit simulation.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge / understanding
  1. Learn how to work with binary number systems and arithmetic.
  2. Understand how computer engineering uses or benefits from digital logic.
  3. Articulate why gates are the fundamental elements of a digital system.
  4. Analyze circuits containing basic memory elements.
  5. Analyze the behavior of synchronous and asynchronous machines.

Theoretical Skills
  1. Analyze and design combinational logic networks in a hierarchical, modular approach, using standard and custom logic functions.
  2. Apply the concepts of basic timing issues, including clocking, timing constraints, and propagation delays during the design process.
  3. Apply the concepts of basic timing issues, including clocking, timing constraints, and propagation delays during the digital design process.

Practical Skills
  1. Use number systems, codes and binary arithmetic.
  2. Derive and manipulate switching functions that form the basis of digital circuits.
  3. Reduce switching functions to simplify circuits used to realize them.
  4. Realize switching functions with networks of logic gates.
  5. Develop a complex digital system design in a hierarchical fashion using top-down and bottom-up design approaches
  6. Designing combinational and sequential digital systems
  7. Model and simulate a digital system using schematic diagrams.
  8. Evaluate, justify and optimize the methods chosen for the implementation from different points of view: cost, time, space etc.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION (Top)

Introduction. Number systems and codes.

Binary arithmetic.

Boolean Algebra. Boolean functions. Logic gates.  Digital systems and functions representation

Methods for minimizing Boolean functions and systems of functions

Combinational logic circuits analysis and design (synthesis).

Methods for designing digital systems with SSI, MSI, LSI and VLSI circuits.  Combinational Hazard.

Sequential logic circuits. Latches and Flip-Flops.

Flip-Flops applications: frequency dividers, counters

Flip-Flops applications: data registers, converters, memories

Methods for designing digital systems using Flip-Flops

Methods for designing digital systems using memories, multiplexers, decoders, counters

Methods for designing sequential synchronous systems

Methods for designing digital systems using programmable devices

 

LABORATORY (Top)

 

Workbook: L. Văcariu, O. Creţ, A. Neţin. “Analiza şi sinteza dispozitivelor numerice, Îndrumător de laborator”. Ediţia a 3-a, U.T. Press Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2005, ISBN 973-662-180-4, 198 pages. (available only in Romanian).

 

 

L1 – Introduction

L2 – Fundamental Logic Circuits

L3 – ActiveCAD Schematic Editor and Simulator (I, II)

L4 – Combinational Logic Circuits CLC

L5 – MSI Combinational Logic Circuits

L6 – Implementing CLCs in ActiveCAD

L7 – Flip-Flops

L8 – Counters (I, II)

L9 – Registers and Shift Registers

L10 – Implementing CLSs in ActiveCAD

L11 – ABEL Software

L12 – FPGA XILINX Circuits Family; Synchronous Sequential Circuits Synthesis with FPGA Programmable Devices

 

Laboratory Test

 

IMPORTANT!

1. The presence at the laboratory work is mandatory!!!

2. Recoveries of maximum 2 lab works are admitted on the first week of the winter session (tax will be charged).

 

 

 

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