Digital Circuits for High School Students Lecture Outline

Prepared by Charles S. Tritt, Ph.D.
July 18, 1997

Session One -- Introduction and Basics

Digital versus Analog. Why digital?
Boolean logic and logic operators.
Electronical safety and equipment.
SSI TTL chips.

Session Two -- Binary Mathematics

Number systems, positional notation and base 2 (binary).
MSI and arithmetic chips.

Session Three -- Digital Memory and ASCII Codes

Digital memory organization.
Hexadecimal (Hex) numbers.
ASCII codes.
EPROM chips.

Session Four -- Flip-flops and Sequential Circuits

Introduction to sequential circuits.
Flip-flops.
State diagrams.
Sequential MSI chips.