Digital Electronics

	Digital Electronics
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Date	Notes	Class Activities
12/21	end of 9 weeks
10/17A 10/18B	odometer calculator “The Martian” hexadecimal scene	Data Representation – Number Systems Magic Cards (cards) Exponential Growth (binary vs decimal) spreadsheet Decimal Binary Hex Decimal and Binary Number systems Hexadecimal Number system Questions 1-5 lasacs Hex to Binary Shortcut Number Conversion worksheet upload a pdf file to BLEND [5 pts 10/25] answer key Radiolab Bit Flip (1:01 – 10:50) whole podcast
Combinational Logic Circuits
10/13	end of 9 weeks
10/10A 10/13B	What’s nEEw?	NAND and NOR gates (Part B) CMOS Logic Gates
10/12C		C-day
10/07A 10/11B	What’s nEEw?	NAND and NOR gates (Part A) NAND and NOR gate simulations (pairs #4) [10 pts 10/18] NAND [90%] NOR [100%]
10/05A 10/06B	What’s nEEw?	LASA{CS}ASK 7404 Hex Inverters 7404 circuits – inverter & ring oscillator (pairs #4) [10 pts 10/16]
10/03A 10/04B	What’s nEEw? garage chips video	capacitance time & current How do they make Silicon Wafers and Computer Chips (0:41-8:30) Ring Oscillator Ring Oscillator simulation [2 pts 10/11]
9/29B 9/30A	What’s nEEw?	How Intel Makes a Chip (3:11) Buffers Buffer simulation [5 pts 10/7]
9/27B 9/28A	What’s nEEw?	Inverter Design & Simulation Inverter Simulations (pairs #3) [10 pts 10/5 ]
9/23B 9/26A	What’s nEEw?	NMOS & PMOS transistors How does a transistor work? (6:00) Inverter Sizing (version 1) [5 pts 10/3]
9/21A 9/22B	What’s nEEw? spice summary & debug	MOSFET Transistor (How It Works) Transistor Evolution NMOS Transistor Simulation [5 pts 9/29]
9/10A 9/20B	What’s nEEw?	MOSFET transistors (Introduction) Falstad circuit (students open) Photolithography: Step by Step (start 1:14) Building chips in a garage (video) Build a Transistor out of Play Doh Step by Step (groups of 2 or 3)
Transistor Circuits
9/15B 9/16A	What’s nEEw? LEDs & Capacitors [11 pts] review 1, 2, 3, 4 know k,m,u,n,p,f google calculator	finish up … DC Circuits unit
9/13B 9/14A	What’s nEEw?	continue Arduino 101 (pairs #2) Project 5 [90%] Project 6 [95%] Project 7a or 7b [97.5%] 7a and 7b [100%]
9/09B 9/12A	What’s nEEw?	Arduino 101 (ind) [5 pts 9/19] Project 1 Arduino 101 (pairs #2) [15 pts 9/23] Project 2 [50%] Project 3 [70%] Project 4 [80%]
9/07A 9/08B	What’s nEEw? clean up capturing oscilloscope screen	Arduino 101 (Get Started) Oscilloscopes Using an Oscilloscope (groups of 3) [10 pts 9/19]
9/02A 9/06B	series or parallel What’s nEEw? spice summary & debug arduino issues	installing ngspice Introduction to a Spice simulator (ngspice) finish … Simulating RC Circuits (ind) ngspice
8/31A 9/01B	What’s nEEw?	finish … Light up an LED Capacitors Inductors (for reference only) Simulating RC Circuits (ind) [10 pts 9/13] Desmos ngspice (next time)
8/29A 8/30B	What’s nEEw? Electricity, Resistive Circuits, Multimeter, Breadboard calculator MEASURING	Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) add “measure the Arduino voltage” to lab. Light up an LED (pairs #1) [10 pts 9/6] LED Datasheet
8/25B 8/26A	What’s nEEw? breadboard 5:00 – 8:45 MEASURING	GoSoapBox #2 (link is restricted before this date) finish … Series and Parallel Resistance
8/23B 8/24A	What’s nEEw? MEASURING	GoSoapBox #1 (link is restriced before this date) Tinkercad (Introduction) Series and Parallel Resistance (pairs #1) [15 pts 8/31]
8/19B 8/22A	breadboard 1:15 – 4:30 MEASURING	Arduino 101 (POWER – slides 1-11) Resistive Circuits & Ohm’s Law Ohm’s Law Practice (optional) Power, Multimeter, Breadboard
8/17A 8/18B		Reporting Values Current, Voltage, Resistance lasacs falstad circuit simulator (demo) Basic Resistive Circuits [10 pts 8/25]
DC Circuits
8/15A 8/16B		Getting Started teacher lasacs.com courses hack-a-day syllabus peer tutors puzzles PFLASA post Women in Tech & Engineering seating chart register for Google Classroom Room 506 (hall pass, lost & found, fake plant?, scratch paper) [email protected] (put *Period #* and *name* in email subject) BLEND (Can you see class? Turn off Color Overlay!!!) LASA{CS} CLUBS UIL Competitions/CTFs/NACLO, Cyberpatriot, Online Challenges Class Textbook What’s nEEw? evacuation route evacuation meetup location A Crisis in Engineering Education – Where are the Microelectronics Engineers? Moore’s Law, Amdahl’s Law, Dennard Scaling Binary in the real world Energy Stick

Data Representation – Number Systems

Combinational Logic Circuits

Transistor Circuits

DC Circuits

Getting Started