| Digital technology pervades almost everything in our daily lives. For example, cell phones and other types of wireless communications, television, radio, process controls, automotive electronics, consumer electronics, aircraft navigation-- to name only a few applications-- depend heavily on digital electronics. A strong grounding in the fundamentals of digital technology will prepare you for the highly skilled jobs of the future. This unit starts from the very beginning of digital systems, including basic digital concepts, logic gates/digital circuits associated with Boolean algebra, and logic reduction/conversion. Based on the fundamental concepts, the following content focuses more on the realisation of some basic functions in the digital systems, including adders, comparators, encoders/decoders, multiplexers/demultiplexers, flip-flops etc. With those basic functions, more complex components such as registers, counters are also discussed. As the final part of this unit, the general introduction of memory systems, micro-processors and computer architecture is delivered. This is a core unit for electrical and electronics engineering and software engineering students to gain more insights to the actual working principles of computing systems. |
