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.