Digital System Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Digital System Design (subject code BE03000181) as prescribed for EC-CS · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 44 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE03000181)Unit 1 Binary Number Systems, Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates
- Octal and Hexadecimal numbers
- number base conversions
- basic theorems and properties of Boolean algebra
- Boolean functions
- Canonical and Standard forms
- POS and SOP forms
- digital logic gates
Unit 2 Simplification of Boolean Functions and Combinational Logic Circuit
- Design : Logic minimization using the Map and the Tabulation methods up to six variables
- NAND and NOR implementation of logical circuits
- determination of prime implicants
- Design of : Adders
- Code Converters
Unit 3 MSI and PLD Circuit Design
- Parallel Adder and Subtractor
- BCD adder
- magnitude comparator
- multiplexers and decoders
- Read Only Memory (ROM)
- Programmable Logic Array (PLA)
- Programmable Array Logic (PAL)
- MSI and PLD circuit design problems
Unit 4 Sequential Logic Circuits
- Flip Flops
- Triggering Flip- Flops
- Analysis of clocked sequential circuit
- flip flop excitation tables
- flip flop conversions
Unit 5 State Machine Design
- Introduction to state machines
- classification and analysis of state machine
- design of ripple counters
- design of synchronous counters
- state changes reference to clock
- number of state flip flop
- input forming logic
- output forming logic
- redundant states
- general state machine architecture
- concept of asynchronous state machines
- shift registers
Unit 6 Logic families
- characteristics and specifications of logic families
- Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)
- NAND and NOR gate constructions
Unit 7 Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog Converters
- D to A converters : Weighted Register and R-2R Converter
- D to A converter IC, A to D Converters : Flash
- SAR and Dual slope converters
- D to A converter IC