Physics 351
Fall 2008

Electronics II
Introduction to Digital Electronics

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/25-27          NO CLASS
  Physics 351 course advertisement
  
  
• Week 1: 9/1-3          Digital logic
  Syllabus
  Chapter 1 course notes (with design exercises clarified)
  Week 1 overheads (corrected)
  Lab 1 instructions
  
  Link to Quartus II Web Edition software and license request form
  
  NAND: 74LS00 datasheet      NOR: 74LS02 datasheet
  AND: 74LS08 datasheet         OR: 74LS32 datasheet
  XOR: 74LS86 datasheet         XNOR: 74LS266 datasheet
  Inverter: 74LS04 datasheet      Buffer: 74LS365 datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 2: 9/8-10          Introduction to FPGAs 
  Chapter 2 course notes (by Altera Inc.):  Quartus II Introduction Using Schematic Design
                                                                Quartus II Introduction Using Verilog Design
  Week 2 Design Exercises
  Week 2 overheads (updated)
  Lab 2 instructions
  
  Additional documents:
  Altera DE2 development board manual [3.3 MB]
  Altera DE2 schematics
  Altera DE2 pin assignments[.csv file]
  Altera CycloneII FPGA datasheet [2.1 MB]
  
  Project documents:
  DSP Research Project Guidelines
  DSP Function Generator Specifications
  
  Notes:  - Class will be held in Morton 341.
              - Quartus II is available for use in Morton 240 (open 24/7) and Swem Library room 134 (Learning Center).
  
  
• Week 3: 9/15-17          Flip-Flops 
  Chapter 3 course notes
  Week 3 overheads
  Lab 3 instructions
  
  Flip-Flop: 74LS74 datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 4: 9/22-24          One-Shots, Counters, and Clocks 
  Chapter 4 course notes
  Week 4 overheads
  Lab 4 instructions
  
  Monostable multivibrator: 74LS123 datasheet
  
  
• Week 5: 9/29-10/1          More Counters and Registers
  Chapter 5 course notes
  Week 5 overheads [updated]
  Lab 5 instructions
  
  8-bit shift-register: 74LS164 datasheet
  
  
• Week 6: 10/6-8          ADCs and DACs 
  Chapter 6 course notes
  Week 6 overheads
  Lab 6 instructions [updated]
  
  8-bit DAC: TLC7524 datasheet
  8-bit ADCs: ADC0820 datasheet, TLC5510 datasheet
  Rail-to-rail Op-Amp: LT1498 datasheet.
  
  
• Week 6.5: 10/13-15          Project Start 
  No Lecture: Fall break.
  Lab: Start of DSP project.
  
  
  
• Week 7: 10/20-22          State Machines and Microprocessors 
  Chapter 7 course notes
  Week 7 overheads
  Lab 7 instructions
  
  8-bit counter: 74F269 datasheet
  4-input NAND: 74LS20 datasheet
  4-input AND: 74LS21 datasheet
  3-input NOR: 74LS27 datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 8: 10/27-29          DSP project, week 1 
  Lecture: Opto-isolation and ground loops
  Chapter 8 course notes
  Week 8 overheads
  
  Digital opto-couplers: HCPL-7723 datasheet, 6N137 datasheet, VO4661 datasheet (dual 6N137)
  Analog opto-couplers: HCNR-200 datasheet, ISO100 optical isolation amplifier datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 9: 11/3-5          DSP project, week 2 
  Lecture: Buses and tri-state logic
  Chapter 9 course notes
  
  Tri-State Buffer: 74LS125 datasheet
  
  
• Week 10: 11/10-12          DSP project, week 3 
  Chapter 10 course notes: Introduction to DSP
  Week 10 overheads
  
  For more information on DSP, you can consult the following on-line books:
  CRC Digital Signal Processing Handbook
  Introductory DSP laboratory exercises (with MATLAB)
  
  
  
• Week 11: 11/17-19          DSP project, week 4 
  Lecture: Phase Lock Loops
  
  digital PLL chip: 74HC4046 datasheet
  
  
• Week 12: 11/24          DSP project, week 5 
  Lecture: Pulse Electronics and Physics
  Week 12 overheads
  
  
  
• Week 13: 12/1-3          DSP project, week 6 ... and the winners are ... 
  Lecture: No lecture ... finish up project.
  
  The DSP design competition winners are J. Gates, J. Vazquez, and R. Zielinski.