Foundation Level

Digital Systems

4 credit course, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam.

Taught by Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan , Prof. S. Ramprasath

Code EE1102

Credits 4 Credits

Type Foundation

Prerequisites

EE1101

Core Competencies

What You'll Learn

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The course is intended as an introduction to digital logic and systems. At the end of the course, students should be able to: understand and explain digital systems composed of basic combinational and sequential elements
understand issues with timing and the performance analysis of circuits
understand the use of finite state machine based controllers and their use in design of complex circuits
understand the basic operation of a microprocessor in terms of a datapath and programmable control, along with memory interfacing

12-Week Roadmap

Course Structure & Syllabus

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WEEK 1

Introduction to digital systems; logic representation, voltage transfer characteristics, and reliable logic design.

WEEK 2

Number systems and digital representations; binary, octal, hexadecimal, and signed number formats.

WEEK 3

Boolean logic fundamentals; logic gates, truth tables, and Boolean algebra.

WEEK 4

Boolean simplification and logic optimization; canonical forms and efficient circuit implementation.

Reading List

Prescribed Books & References

Digital Logic and Computer Design, M. Mano, 2004
Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Harris and Harris, MK 2013

Faculty & Experts

About the Instructors

Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan

Assistant Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

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Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras and is part of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (iCS) group. His research interests include porting machine-learning algorithms on to hardware and statistical analysis in VLSI. He also has a keen interest in Microprocessors and Programming in general.

Other Courses by Instructor:

EE1101 • Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits EE2103 • Digital System Design

Prof. S. Ramprasath

Assistant Professor , Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

He is an Assistant Professor in the Integrated Circuits and Systems Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. His primary research interests are in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Algorithms, with a specific focus on automating the Back End of Line (BEOL) flow for custom digital and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) designs.

He was involved in the development of the AMS placer and router in ALIGN, an open-source layout generator. During his stint at Synopsys after completing his PhD, he developed various tools for BEOL automation that are now state-of-the-art and are part of the Custom Compiler platform.

His recent research interests include mapping NP-hard/complete problems to Ising machines and exploring techniques such as Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) for solving layout generation problems.

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