Courses persons responsible
Raimo Mäkelä

Lecturers
Matti Haavisto
Raimo Mäkelä

Implementations

Person responsible:

Raimo Mäkelä

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	-	-	-	1 h/week	-
Exercise work	-	-	-	-	12 h/week	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
The objectives of the course are to get students familiar with the analog phenomena in digital circuits and the measuring instruments used in the measurements of digital circuits.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	- Measuring of circuits by using logic analyzer	- Knowledge about the memories and data busses of processors	- HP 1673G Logic analyzer
2.	- Propagation delay, rise and fall times in digital circuits - Inverter characteristics - Rise and fall time measurements with oscilloscope - Effects of changes in supply voltage and output load	- TTL and CMOS logic families	- Agilent 54622D Mixed Signal Oscilloscope
3.	- Inductive phenomena in supply wires
4.	- Noise margins - Output resistance - Effects of resistive loading
5.	- Power dissipation in digital circuits

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TKT-1100	TKT-1100 Basic Digital Circuits	3	Recommendable
TKT-1110	TKT-1110 Microprocessors	5	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Assignments	80
Total sum	80

Correspondence of content
8404210 Digital Systems Laboratory

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Last modified	20.10.2006
Modified by	Raimo Mäkelä