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Class cancelled/Operations suspended

UPDATE: Classes and campus operations will resume on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Due to inclement weather affecting the Bryan-College Station area, Texas A&M University has cancelled all classes for Tuesday, Jan. 21. Additionally, all campus operations have been suspended. A decision about Wednesday, Jan. 22 will be made by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Please visit emergency.tamu.edu for additional information about campus transportaion, campus dining, and other resources. Stay safe, Ags!

Syllabus

  1. Logic gates and Boolean Algebra
    •  Theorems of Boolean Algebra
    •  Variables, literals, minterms, maxterms, cubes
    •  Two-level logic minimization
    •  Incompletely specified logic functions
    •  Canonical representations of logic functions
  2. Combinational Logic
    •  Shannon's Expansion Theorem
    •  Multi-level logic optimization
    •  Timing analysis
    •  Special circuits – MUXes, Decoders, Encoders, PLAs, FPGAs, CPLDs,
  3. Arithmetic Circuits
    •  Addition
    •  Subtraction and 2's complement
    •  Multiplication
    •  Division
    •  Arithmetic Sums-of-products
    •  Floating point arithmetic
  4. Sequential Design
    •  Latches, Flip-flops, Registers
    •  Counters
    •  State machines
    •  Incomplete specification and non-determinism
  5. MOS based Logic Circuits
    •  Basic MOS based realization of logic elements
    •  Circuit design styles
    •  Design of gates and memory elements