431-102 Computer Engineering 1

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To complete the subject successfully, you should be able to demonstrate that you can:

• appreciate the pervasiveness of digital circuits in modern life;

• design combinational logic circuits to a specification using a variety of logic circuit minimisation techniques and integrated circuit technologies;

• design synchronous sequential logic circuits to perform a variety of common tasks including counting and sequence identification;

• identify and describe the key elements within a microprocessor, and have an understanding of the logic within them and their functions;

• write a simple assembly-language program and download it to a microcontroller chip;

• construct logic circuits using commercial components;

• communicate in terms commonly used in computer engineering

Content:

Analogue versus Digital. Basic gates. Combinational logic circuits: Boolean algebra, minterms and maxterms, Karnaugh maps, integrated circuit types, MSI logic, programmable logic devices. Introduction to number codes, arithmetic networks and the Arithmetic & Logic Unit (ALU). Sequential logic (state machines): latches and flip-flops, sequential logic design methods and examples, registers and counters. Computers and Microprocessors: ALU and register design, software instructions, basic computer architecture, reduction in the size of computers, data flow in a computer/microprocessor, bus designs, computer memory, connecting memory to a microprocessor, programming a microcontroller.

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