Essentials in Digital Technology

This seminar focuses on the digital ICs that are the building blocks in a PC. Starting with basic logic-gate operations, the seminar carries you step-by-step through displays, memories, counters, I/O devices, and arithmetic circuits, finally offering you an opportunity to combine all components to build a PC. The information you learn in this course is critical because digital circuits and digital signal- processing techniques enhance the performance of equipment in such diverse business applications as communications, medical electronics, automotive electronics, and industrial process control. The most prevalent of all digital systems is the personal computer, which exemplifies a system that encompasses all types of digital circuits. (This is a 2 day course).

Next Available Course Dates:

September 25-26, 2008 ~ Dallas, TX

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WHAT THE COURSE COVERS:
  • Computers: History, micros and minis, how does a computer function, input-output dvices, CPU, arithmetic logic units, RAMs, PROMs, busses, microcode peripherals, disks, printers, hard drives.
  • Digital Electronics: What is a digital circuit? Where are the digital circuits used? Why use digital circuits?
  • Numbers used in Digital Electronics: Counting in decimal and binary, place value, binary to decimal conversion, decimal to binary conversion, hexadecimal numbers, and octal numbers.
  • Device Construction and Integrated Circuits: Doping, diodes, transistors, FETs, SCRs, IBGTs, IC construction, common types of ICs including MOS devices, CMOS, NMOS, PMOS.
  • Binary Logic Gates: AND, OR, Inverter, Buffer, NAND, NOR, Exclusive OR and Exclusive NOR, the NAND Gate as a universal gate, multi-input gates, using inverters to convert gates, practical TTL and CMOs logic gates, PLAs, PALs, and Tri-State.
  • Using Binary Logic Gates: Boolean expressions: constructing circuits, drawing a circuit from a Maxterm Expression, and truth tables; sample problems for simplifying Boolean expressions; Karnaugh maps using NAND logic, Karnaugh maps with three and four variables.
  • IC Specifications and Simple Interfacing: Logic levels and noise margins, digital IC specfications for MOS and CMOS ICs, interfacing TTL and CMOS with switches, LEDs and logic interfacing, interfacing with buzzers, relays, motors, and solenoids.
  • Encoding, Decoding, and Seven-Segment Displays: Codes (8421 BCD, Gray and ASCII) encoders, seven-segment LED displays decoders, BCD-to-seven segment decoder/drivers, liquid crystal displays, using CMOS to drive an LCD display
  • Flip-Flops: The R-S flip-flop and the clocked R-S flip-flop, the D flip-flop and the J-K flip-flop, IC latches, triggering flip-flops and Schmitt triggers.

  • Counters: Ripple, mod-10, synchronous, up-down and self-stopping, counters as frequency dividers, TTL and CMOS IC counters.
  • Shift Registers: Serial load, parallel load and universal 8-Bit CMOS Shift register, using shift registers.
  • Arithmetic Circuits: Half and full adders, arithmetic logic units.
  • Memories: Random-Access Memory (RMA), static and dynaic RAM ICs, and RAM mechanization, Read-Only Memory (RAM), using a ROM and Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), nonvolatile read/write memory, microcomputer memory, Operation and programming of ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, and Flash RAM.
  • Revisiting the PC: How the PC functions from a more detailed viewpoint.
  • Connecting with Analog Devices: D/A Conversion: basic and ladder type, operational amplifiers and A/D Converters.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN!
  • You will build a competitive edge in your career by gaining a working knowledge of how digital systems are implemented
  • You will learn how to interpret integrated circuit specifications
  • You will understand basic circuit assembly and manufacturing processes
  • You will acquire familiarity with the applications of digital building block ICs in practical electronic systems
  • You will learn new insights and timely information on critical aspects of digital design. Robert Hanson clearly explains key concepts, offers examples, and provides many opportunities for actual practice and use of electronics essentials. From this newly gained knowledge, you can address digital design issues more effectively.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
  • This course is for anyone who wishes to enhance their understanding of digital design.
  • If you work on PCB layout, testing, quality, and manufacturing and you desire an understanding of digital circuit operation with products they must interface, this course is for you.
  • If you are a software engineer who wants better visibility between the software coding and how it relates to computer hardware, this course is for you.
  • If you are a manager who has responsibility for digital designs, but have not had the time to stay current with logic and computer technology, this course is for you.
Each student who attends this course will receive a thourough course notes text book which is presented in color.


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