Essentials of Digital Technology Training

Essentials of Digital Technology Training provides a comprehensive overview of digital design fundamentals. You learn design essentials while gaining a working knowledge of how real-world digital systems are implemented on the manufacturing floor. The Essentials of Digital Technology Training course identifies how to interpret integrated circuit specifications, understand basic circuit assembly, and manufacturing processes; and acquire a familiarity with the applications of digital building block ICs in practical electronic systems.

This Essentials of Digital Technology Training course is designed for customer/sales associates, marketing and product line representatives, patent attorneys, and other supervisors and managers seeking a background in the fundamentals in order to gain a concise summary of the essential terms and concepts. You will acquire knowledge of digital systems to enhance your professional performance and thereby help your company to understand how digital systems are designed and implemented.

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Digital Electronics

• What is a digital circuit?
• Why use digital circuits?

Numbers Used in Digital Electronics

• Counting in decimal and binary; place value
• Binary to decimal conversion
• Decimal to binary conversion

Essentials of Digital Technology Training – Digital IC Basics

• Device construction and processes
• Diodes and transistors, FETs
• Common integrated circuit types
• MOS devices – CMOS, NMOS, PMOS, PLDs, and FPGAs

Binary Logic Gates

• AND, OR, inverter, buffer, NAND, NOR, and exclusive OR
• Multi-input gates
• Practical TTL and CMOS logic gates

Using Binary Logic Gates

• Boolean expressions
• Constructing circuits
• Sample problems for simplifying Boolean expressions
• Drawing a circuit from a maxterm/minterm expression
• Using Vitch Diagrams and Karnaugh Maps for logic minimization

IC Specifications and Simple Interfacing

• Logic levels and noise margins
• Specifications for MOS and CMOS digital ICS
• Interfacing TTL and CMOS with switches, LED, and logic interfacing

Encoding, Decoding, and 7-Segment Displays

• Codes (8241, BCD, Gray, and ASCII) encoders
• BCD-to-7 segment decoder/drivers
• Liquid crystal displays
• Using CMOS to drive and LCB display

Essentials of Digital Technology Training – Flip-Flops

• R-S and clocked R-S
• Flip-flop operations
• D and J-K flip-flops and Schmitt triggers

*Counter Types:

• *ipple, Mod-10, Synchronous, up-down, and self-stopping
• Counters as frequency dividers
• TTL and CMOS IC counters

Shift Registers

• Serial load/serial shift
• Parallel load/parallel dump
• Serial load/parallel dump
• Parallel load/serial shift

Arithmetic Circuits

• Half and full adders
• Arithmetic logic units
• Subcontractors
• Designing a half adder

Memories

• Random access memory (RAM), static, and dynamic RAM ICs, RAM mechanization, read-only memory (ROM)
• Using a ROM and programmable read-only memory (PROM), other memory devices
• Non-volatile read/write memory, microprocessor memory
• Operation and programming of ROM, PROM, EPROM, and flash RAM

Essentials of Digital Technology Training Course Recap, Q/A, and Evaluations