Aims

The aim of the course is to study in-depth standard digital integrated circuits (such as Boolean gates, flip-flops, registers, finite-state machines, memories, ...) including the design, simulation and synthesis aspects. This course will also present the architecture of standard microcontrollers.

Main themes

Identical to the contents of the course

Content and teaching methods

1) Standard digital circuits
- combinatorial circuits
- implementation
- sequential circuits (Flip-flops, counters, FSM)
- VHDL : synthesis and simulation
2) Microcontrollers
- architecture
- periperals
- assembler programming
3) Integrated digital circuits
- spice models
- MOS digital circuits (NMOS, CMOS)
- bipolar digital circuits (TTL, ECL, BiCMOS)
- memories (ROM, SRAM, DRAM)

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites
ELEC1530 : Electronics I

Assessment
Oral examination on the theoretical part of the lectures (slides seen during the lectures), and on the making of one or two digital electronic circuits

Bibliography
Supporting material : 2 English text books and a dedicated website

For more information:

http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~jdl/InfoCours/InfoCours.htm

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