2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Digital Electronic Circuits
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroo Suzuki / Dai Taguchi / Kenichi Okada
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Tue / 1-2 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.C321
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on the fundamentals of digital circuit. Topics include binary number, logical algebra and its calculation, basic logic gate, combinational logic circuit, flip-flops and sequential circuit. Most of electronic devices consists of digital circuit technique. By combining lectures and exercises, the course enables students to understand and acquire the fundamentals of logic circuit so that students can design a simple circuit. Students will experience the satisfaction of solving practical circuit problems by using their knowledge regarding a logic circuit acquired through this course.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand and explain the fundamentals of logical algebra and logic gates.
2) Analyze and design a simple combinational logic circuit.
3) Analyze and design flip-flops.
4) Analyze and design a simple sequential logic circuit.
Keywords
Digital circuit, logic circuit, logical algebra, combinational logic circuit, flip-flop, sequential circuit
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
- ・Applied specialist skills on EEE
Class flow
At the beginning of each class, solutions to exercise problems that were given at the previous class are reviewed. Towards the end of class, students are given exercise problems related to the lecture given that day to solve. To prepare for class, students should read the course schedule section and check what topics will be covered. Required learning should be completed outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Digital information | We can calculate binary numbers and make truth table based on logic circuits |
| Class 2 | CMOS circuits | We can explain the concept of CMOS switches based on ON-OFF states of MOS transistors |
| Class 3 | CMOS-based NAND NOR circuits | We can explain CMOS logic circuits and model the truth table by using CMOS switches. |
| Class 4 | NOT AND OR gates and logic algebra | We understand logic algebra and explain NOT AND OR gates as a basic gate in terms of the logic algebra. We can describe OR of ANDs expressions in terms of disjunctive normal form, using given truth tables. |
| Class 5 | Simplification, Karnaugh map | We understand the idea of logical adjacency and can simplify logical expressions by using a method known as the Karnaugh map. |
| Class 6 | NAND-based circuits and NOT-AND-OR-based expressions | We can exchange the expressions for truth tables among NAND-based circuits, NOR-based-circuits, NOT-AND-OR-based OR of ANDs and AND of ORs expressions |
| Class 7 | Overall exercise of the former half of the course | Review the former half of the course with exercise problems |
| Class 8 | Mid term check exercise | Check progress in understanding of combinational digital circuits discussed in lectures 1-7. We understand and use their concepts on logic algebra, CMOS circuits, and various logic circuits expressions. We can also rearrange and transform the circuits among various types of expressions. |
| Class 9 | Flip-flop 1 | Understand RS-FF, JK-FF and D-FF as well as simple sequential circuits |
| Class 10 | Flip-flop 2 | Understand counter circuits, master-slave FF, and edge-trigger FF |
| Class 11 | Application of Flip-flop | Understand Shift-register and counter circuits |
| Class 12 | Sequential circuit 1 | Understand simple sequential circuits using D-FFs, state transition diagram and table, and design simple sequential circuits using D-FFs |
| Class 13 | Sequential circuit 2 | Understand the simplification of sequential circuits |
| Class 14 | Sequential circuit 3 | Understand the simplification with lengthy states, and design synchronous counter circuits. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
All course materials will be uploaded to T2SCHOLA.
(reference books)
T. Ndjountche, Digital Electronics 1, Wiley ISTE, ebook, 2016.
Evaluation methods and criteria
The above required learning will be evaluated by using Mid term check exercise (35%), home work (1-7th lectures) (15%), End-term Exam (40％), home work (9-14th lectures)（10％）.
Related courses
- EEE.C331 ： Computer Architecture (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- EEE.C341 ： Integrated Circuit Technology
Prerequisites
No prerequisite.