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2006/7 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: EEE2003 Module Title: DIGITAL ENGINEERING
Module Provider: Electronic Engineering Short Name: EE2.DIG Previous Short Name: EE2.DIG
Level: HE2 Module Co-ordinator: CAREY JD Dr (Elec Eng)
Number of credits: 10 Number of ECTS credits: 5
 
Module Delivery

Spring
Assessment Requirements

 

Components of Assessment
Method(s)
Percentage Weighting
 2 Examinations
Written, unseen 
50% each
Module Overview
Prerequisites/Co-requisites

EE Level-1 Digital Logic or equivalent

Module Aims

Note: This module consists of two related but independent half-modules 

Digital Engineering: Digital Integrated Circuits (JDC)

By the end of this module, students would be expected to be able to

  1. describe the basic structure and operation common of MOSFET and CMOS based electronic devices including memory systems;
  2. describe the properties associated with a digital inverter and be able further design an inverter with known properties;
  3. and design combinational and sequential logic circuits with known properties.

Digital Engineering: Microprocessor systems (AHS)

Aims: To present the basic and most popular concepts and functions of microprocessor systems.
Learning Outcomes

Digital Engineering: Microprocessor systems (AHS)

The expected outcomes of the Microprocessor Systems half-module are as follows. The student should understand the basic concepts of microprocessor architecture and design, should be able to clearly describe microprocessor operations and functionalities, and should be able to solve simple microprocessor design problems.
Module Content
Digital Engineering: Digital Integrated Circuits (JDC)
  1. Introduction to digital integrated circuits: Semiconductor technology and scales of integration, definitions of logic levels, noise margins, fan-in and fan-out, Properties of Digital inverters, the voltage transfer characteristic (VTC).
  2. MOS transistor: Structure and operation, output and transfer characteristics, n- channel vs. p-channel transistors, enhancement vs. depletion mode, channel length modulation.
  3. MOSFET based memory: Structure, read and write operation of Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), Erasable PROM (EPROM), Electrically Erasable (E2PROM) and Flash memories.
  4. CMOS Inverter I: structure and operation regimes of the NMOS and PMOS transistors and their relation to the voltage transfer characteristic of the inverter, transistor matching and designing the VTC.
  5. CMOS inverter II: Dynamic operation of the inverter, source of capacitance, optimising the charging and discharging current to design the propagation delay.
6-7.CMOS Combinational logic: Transmission gate and CMOS Schmitt trigger, transistor rules for pull up and pull down networks, transistor sizing.
8.  Alternatives to CMOS logic: ratioed and ratioless design, pseudo-NMOS and dynamic logic CMOS. Comparison with conventional static CMOS.
9.  Sequential CMOS logic: CMOS implementation of flip-flop and counters.
10-11.CMOS based memory: Memory structure, Structure and Operation of static random access memory (SRAM) and Dynamic RAM memory cell.
12. Introduction to ASIC: Types of ASIC, field vs. mask programmable, delay time scaling and capacitance. 

Microprocessor Systems (AHS)
1.  Microprocessor Review. 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit Microprocessors Microcontrollers. DSP.
2.   Organisation and Architecture of Typical Microprocessors
3-6. Assembly Language Programming. Instruction Sets. Instruction Format. Addressing Modes. Using variables. Control Structures. Subroutine Calls
7-9. Embedded Microprocessor Systems. System Design. Basic Peripherals and
Interfacing. Interfacing to the Analogue World. Interrupts and Exceptions. Real-Time Operating Systems
10. Microprocessor Systems – Implementation Issues
11. Development Software for Embedded Microprocessor Systems
12. Design Example.
Methods of Teaching/Learning

Lectures

Course notes and other related material are available on a course website.
Selected Texts/Journals

J. M. Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits -A Design Perspective, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall 2002 (ISBN 0131207644), £31.99

A. S. Sedra and K.C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 4th Edition, (ISBN 0195116909) Oxford 1998. 

A. H. Sadka, Notes on Microprocessor Systems
Last Updated

15th August 2006