Digital Electronics

	Digital Electronics
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Date	Notes	Class Activities
5/27	end of 9 weeks
3/11	end of 9 weeks
12/17	end of 9 weeks
10/20	Transistors & Spice	7 Segment Displays 7-segment Displays 7-segment Arduino 0-F truth table circuit logic analyzer
10/18	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] answer key Radiolab Bit Flip (1:01 – 10:50) whole podcast
Combinational Logic Circuits
10/15	end of 9 weeks
10/15	spice summary	NAND and NOR gates (Part B) CMOS Logic Gates
10/13		NAND and NOR gates (Part A) NAND and NOR gate simulations [15 pts] NAND [90%] NOR [100%]
10/8		LASA{CS}ASK 7404 Hex Inverters 7404 circuits – inverter & ring oscillator (pairs #4) [10 pts]
10/6		How do they make Silicon Wafers and Computer Chips (0:41-8:30) Ring Oscillator Ring Oscillator simulation [5 pts]
10/4		How Intel Makes a Chip (3:11) Buffers Buffer simulation [5 pts]
9/29		finish … Inverter Simulations
9/27	Dr. Norman	NMOS & PMOS transistors How does a transistor work? (6:00) Inverter Sizing [5 pts] Inverter Design & Simulation Inverter Simulations (pairs #3) [10 pts]
9/24		NMOS Transistor Simulation [5 pts]
9/22	Spice Summary	MOSFET transistors Photolithography: Step by Step (start 1:14) Build a Transistor out of Play Doh Step by Step (groups of 2)
Transistor Circuits
9/20	What’s nEEw?	continue Arduino 101 (pairs #2) Project 5 [90%] Project 6 [95%] Project 7a or 7b [97.5%] 7a and 7b [100%]
9/15	What’s nEEw?	Arduino 101 (pairs #2) [15 pts] Project 2 [50%] Project 3 [70%] Project 4 [80%]
9/13		finish Oscilloscope lab
9/10	What’s nEEw? capturing oscilloscope screen	Oscilloscopes Using an Oscilloscope (pairs #2) [10 pts]
9/8	What’s nEEw? spice summary arduino issues	Introduction to a Spice simulator (ngspice) Arduino 101 (Get Started) Arduino 101 (Project 1) (pairs #2) [5 pts]
9/3	What’s nEEw? installing ngspice	Capacitors Inductors (for reference only) Simulating RC Circuits [10 pts]
9/1	What’s nEEw? Basic Electricity & Ohm’s Law calculator	finish … Light up an LED
8/30	What’s nEEw? breadboard 5:00 – 6:30	Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Light up an LED (pairs #1) [10 pts]
8/25	What’s nEEw?	Series and Parallel Resistance lab
8/23	What’s nEEw? breadboard 1:15 – 4:30	Resistive Circuits & Ohm’s Law Ohm’s Law Practice (optional) Power, Multimeter, Breadboard Arduino 101 (POWER – slides 1-11) Series and Parallel Resistance (pairs #1) [15 pts]
8/20	falstad	Current, Voltage, Resistance lasacs Basic Resistive Circuits [10 pts]
DC Circuits
8/18	Euler	Getting Started teacher lasacs.com courses hack-a-day syllabus Peer Tutors puzzles Women in Tech & Engineering GoSoapBox lasacs.com/ask/222 (bookmark, ?) sign up for Google Classroom [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 What’s nEEw? Moore’s Law, Amdahl’s Law, Dennard Scaling 0 & 1 (from real-world signals to logic to microprocessors). evacuation route evacuation meetup location

7 Segment Displays

Data Representation – Number Systems

Combinational Logic Circuits

Transistor Circuits

DC Circuits

Getting Started