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PHYS311 Digital Electronic Systems

Updated: 15 January 2013
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Trimester 2 On Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites ELEC211 or PHYS211 or candidature in a postgraduate award in the School of Environmental and Rural Science or School of Science and Technology
Co-requisites None
Restrictions ELEC311 or PHYS311A or PHYS511
Notes None
Combined Units PHYS511 - Digital Electronic Systems
Coordinator(s) Ronald Bradbury (rbradbu2@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The design and analysis of digital electronics is developed, building on the introduction in PHYS211. Topics covered include logic gates, flip-flops, counters, de/multiplexers, de/encoders, buses and microprocessors. PHYS511 will cover the material in greater depth and include an additional topic on programmable gate arrays.

Important Information

Where calculators are permitted in examinations, it must be selected from an approved list, which can be accessed from the Further Information link below.

Further information

Materials Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. design digital combination logic circuits up to 4 inputs and design and apply sequential logic circuits - counters registers, shift-registers;
  2. apply binary number addition and subtraction theory to the corresponding circuit implementation;
  3. describe the essential characteristics of serial and parallel data transmission;

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students are presented with information regarding concepts, principles and rules in digital logic systems. Practical problems, both design and analysis, are presented where the student analyses and interprets the problem and uses principles and laws to produce a solution.
True True True
2 Communication Skills
Communication is practised in written assignments, examinations and online discussions.
True
4 Information Literacy
Students reference, interpret and analyse the provided study material and seek out text, graphical, schematic and mathematical source material from library and online resources. Students are encouraged to utilise a range of complementary study material.
True
6 Problem Solving
Students solve many logical, conceptual and numerical problems (design and analysis) related to digital logic systems in all assessment components as they are problem based.
True True True
   

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