The subject of Digital Electronics is interdisciplinary in nature, and is part of the Specific Industrial and Automatic Electronic Technology Module, which also includes: Analog Electronics, Power Electronics and Electronic Technology (sharing the first four-month period) and Digital Electronic Systems, Industrial Automation, Industrial Informatics, Robotics, Automatic Regulation and Electronic Instrumentation (subjects of the second four-month period).



As an interdisciplinary subject, it is important to provide the students with adequate knowledge for the assimilation and deepening of other subjects in the career; which will help to avoid neither unnecessary overlaps nor gaps in their content. It is highly convenient to adequately analyze aspects that have been introduced in other subjects but that acquire their own particularities. This background can be classified as follows:



I) Subjects from previous courses. From the second course: in the Industrial Electronics subject, the basic concepts of Digital Electronics are studied.

II) Subjects after the first quarter from the third year: Digital Electronics provides skills, knowledge and abilities that are applied from then on, in the following subjects: Digital Electronic Systems, Electronic Instrumentation, Virtual Instrumentation, Digital Control Systems, System Modeling and Simulation and in the End-of-Degree Work (TFG).

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES



TEEOI3 - Knowledge of the fundamentals and applications of digital electronics and microprocessors.

TEEOI6 - Ability to design analog, digital and power electronic systems.



LEARNING OUTCOMES



SC1. Ability to design a digital system, both at the level of integrated circuits available on the market and at the level of designing based on functional blocks.

SC2. Ability to select the most suitable integrated circuit for a specific design.

SC3. Ability to analyze any type of integrated circuit, from its datasheets.

SC4. Ability to analyze and detect errors from any digital circuit, both combinational and sequential.





TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES.



CT0. Ability to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.

CT1. Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical thinking and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and know-how in the field of Industrial Engineering.



The transversal competencies of the module are focused on achieving the following skills:

1. To be able to work on the knowledge inherent to the subject for the correct application to digital electronic devices, using a specific technical vocabulary and terminology.

2. Discipline: respecting the established deadlines.

3. Work as a team, adopting flexible attitudes when faced with proposals from other colleagues.

4. To enliven the spirit of deepening in the matter.

Topics of the course:

0. Presentation of the subject.

1. Digital Electronics Introduction: Boole's Algebra, Logic gates, Functions

2. Numerical and alphanumerical systems: parity, operations in binary, etc.

3. Combinational arithmetic circuits: adders

4. Combinational logic circuits: comparator, multiplexer, codder, etc.

5. Sequential Circuit (SC) design: Flip-Flops, SC, complex designs

6. Registers and counters.

7. TTL vs CMOS

8. Introduction to VHDL.

The different teaching formats are as follows:

M: Master Classes. Presentation of the topics established in the program of the course. Slides will be used for this purpose.

PA: Complementary to the Master Classes. Exercises and practical questions that help to fix the concepts. The approach is both individual and group.

PL: Laboratory practices. Practical complement to the course.



For the concept of non-presential work, there is a weekly questionnaire to be carried out through e-gela sessions (virtual platform) and a monographic work.



In the event that the sanitary conditions prevent an on-site activity and/or evaluation, a distance modality will be activated, of which the students will be punctually informed.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 50
  • Multiple-Choice Test (%): 10
  • Individual works (%): 25
  • Team projects (problem solving, project design)) (%): 15

Unless otherwise specified, the "mixed" assessment will apply to you. This evaluation will be scored as follows:



A) Personal work. A score of 10 % of the final classification will be given from a test to be carried out during the 12 or 13 weeks throughout the course. The test will be performed using an e-gela application (virtual platform). Each test will score 0.083 or 0.077 (depending on the weeks). It is enough to answer (correctly). Sessions will be open on Friday afternoons and closed on Monday afternoons. Answering the questions is a serious job, so a minimum of 9 sessions will be required to be evaluated at the end of the course. That is, if the number of tests you take up to the end of the course is < 9, this section does not score in any final grade.



B) Laboratory. 25%. The continuous evaluation of the laobratory includes the reading, understanding and preparation of the practicals, as well as their corresponding developmet and functioning.



C) Final written test. 50%. Within it, MINIMUM TEST, 10%. The MINIMUM TEST is a test in which basic concepts necessary for the understanding of the subject are evaluated. This minimum test is a qualifying test, a necessary condition for passing the course. If this test is not passed, the remaining 40% is not taken into account and the subject is not passed. The remaining 40% evaluate the knowledge of theory and exercises. It is necessary to obtain at least 25% of the grade of the exercises; otherwise the course will not be passed.



D) Monographic work. 15 %. Group work, which will consist on the development and presentation of a problem proposed in class.



MINIMUMS

All the grades specified above will be added together in the January call, provided that all the minimums have been passed (the minimum exam test, a minimum of 25% in the exam exercises section, a minimum of 30% in the laboratory and a minimum of 30% in the monographic work).





NOT PRESENTED:

If a student does not take the written exam, he or she will have the grade "NOT TAKEN". If a students that takes the written exam doesn not reach the required minimums (minimum test in the exam or 30% in laboratory and monographic work), he or she will have the grade of "FAIL" with a mark equal to the sum of the laboratory + the monographic work (at most 4).





TO PASS:

To pass the course, apart from fulfilling the requirements specified above, the sum of all the sections must be greater than or equal to 5.



FINAL EXAM

Exam aimed to the rest of the students (those who have not been evaluated under the criteria of the mixed evaluation).



When the student requests it (always through the SECRETARIAT OF THE SCHOOL and under a formal document that will be analyzed by the ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION of the school), the student has the right to take a theoretical and practical exam through which he can be evaluated for the 100% of the course.





Following the protocol of academic ethics, in case of detecting fraud, copying or plagiarism, the student will obtain the grade of "FAIL" (0.0).

In the second call, all students can choose whether to continue under the criteria of the mixed evaluation or to take a 100% theoretical-practical test (art. 44 of the regulations). If nothing is specified it will be assumed that the students wants to keep the marks obtained during the semester.



A student who does not show up for the second round will have a NOT TAKEN as a grade.

M: Theoretical guide to the subject.
PA: Practical guide to classroom practice exercises.
GL: Laboratory practice booklet.

Basic bibliography

T. L. Floyd, Digital Fundamentals, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall 2000. ISBN 978-0132359238.



S. Brown, Z. Vranesic. Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Desing, McGraw Hill. 2000. ISBN 978–0073529530.



T.L. Floyd. Digital Fundamentals with VHDH, Floyd. 2002, Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0130995278.



V.P. Nelson, H.T. Nagle, B.D. Carroll, J.D. Irwin. Digital Logic Circuit Analysis and Design, Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 013 4638948.



A.K. Maini. Digital Electronics. Principles, Devices and Applications. John Wiley & Sons. 2007. ISBN 978-0470032145.

In-depth bibliography

J.P. Uyemura. A first course in Digital Systems Design: An Integrated Approach. 1999. ISBN 978-0534934125.

D.A. Patterson, J.L. Hennesy. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. ISBN 978-0-12-407726-3.

P.J. Ashenden. Digital Design. An Embedded Systems Approach Using VHDL. Ed. Morgan Kaufmann. 2008 ISBN 978-8131216637.

K. Kohavi. Switching and Finite Automata Theory. Ed. McGraw-Hill, 1970. 978-0070352988.

Journals

Mundo electrónico.
Nueva electrónica.

Web addresses

http://www.xilinx.com
http://www.altera.com
http://www.redeweb.com
http://irf.com/indexsw.html
http://www.ipes.ethz.ch