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PHYS311 Digital Electronic Systems

Updated: 13 October 2011
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.
Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
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
Electronics knowledge is taught and assessed by application to problem solving. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Communication is practised in written assignments, examinations and online discussions. 		True
4 Information Literacy
Students generally need to seek out a range of complementary study material. 		True
6 Problem Solving
Assignments, examinations and online tests are mostly problem based. 		True True True
   

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