Digital Electronics

	*Digital Electronics*
	BLEND syllabus resources What’s nEEw? APs 5/4 – 5/15

Date	Notes	Class Activities
11/1	end of 6 weeks
10/24	odometer Conversion calculator	Data Representation – Number Systems Magic Cards (cards) Exponential Growth (binary vs decimal) spreadsheet Decimal, Binary, Hexadecimal Decimal and Binary Number systems Hexadecimal Number system Questions 1-5 lasacs Hex to Binary Shortcut Number Conversion worksheet
Combinational Logic Circuits
10/22		NAND and NOR gates (Part II) CMOS Logic Gates Samsung 7nm EUV finish … NAND and NOR gate simulations
10/17	The Current War	NAND and NOR gates (Part I) NAND [80%] and NOR [100%] gate simulations
10/15		finish up Ring Oscillator & 7404 Hex Inverters
10/10		LASA{CS}ASK 7404 Hex Inverters inverter & ring oscillator measurements
10/8		Review Spice Summary Samsung Announces $4B Investment Understanding IC Costs List of Intel Fabs How do they make Silicon Wafers and Computer Chips (9 min) NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad) Ring Oscillator Ring Oscillator simulation [100%]
10/3		How Intel Makes a Chip (3:11) finish … Inverter Simulations Buffers Buffer simulation[80%] finish … Inverter Simulations
10/1	Dr. Norman ngspice Manual	Inverter Design & Simulation Inverter Simulations
9/26		NMOS & PMOS transistors How does a transistor work? (6:00) Coolspice Inverter Simulation installing & running ngspice
9/24	Spice Summary	MOSFET transistors Photolithography: Step by Step (start 1:14) Build a Transistor Step by Step (groups of 2) NMOS Transistor Simulation
Transistor Circuits
9/20	end of 6 weeks
9/20		finish Arduino 101
9/19	What’s nEEw?	FIELD TRIP to IBM Academy of Technology Event (9:30am – 2:50pm) this year’s theme “THINK and Create the Extraordinary” Lunch will be provided
9/20 9/17 9/12	What’s nEEw?	Arduino 101 (Projects 1-6) (group) 1 & 2:70% 3:80% 4:85% 5:90% 6a or 6b:95% 6a & 6b:100%
9/10	What’s nEEw? capturing oscilloscope screen	Using an oscilloscope Oscilloscope (group)
9/6	What’s nEEw? Spice Summary arduino issues	Field Trip (email of teacher whose class you will be missing) Introduction to a SPICE simulator (CoolSPICE) RC Circuit Spice Simulation (Coolspice) Arduino 101 (Get Started & Project 1)
9/5	What’s nEEw? Basic Electricity & Ohm’s Law calculator	Capacitors Inductors (for reference only) RC Circuit Spice Simulation (desmos) falstad -> Capacitor finish … Light up an LED
9/3	What’s nEEw?	fritzing demo run from C:\Program Files\fritzing\… Light Emitting Diodes (LED) Light up an LED (group)
8/29	measuring current What’s nEEw?	next time … Quiz Basic Electricity & Ohm’s Law (for the Quiz) finish … Series and Parallel Resistance
8/27	What’s nEEw?	Resistive Circuits & Ohm’s Law Ohm’s Law Practice (optional) Power, Multimeter, Breadboard Arduino 101 (POWER – slides 1-11) Series and Parallel Resistance (group)
8/23	falstad What’s nEEw?	Current, Voltage, Resistance lasacs Basic Resistive Circuits
DC Circuits
8/21	Euler’s Identify & Euler’s Formula	Getting Started teacher lasacs.com courses syllabus FIT Peer Tutors puzzles no computer games on classroom computers at any time Student survey parent / guardian survey Signature fire drill/evacuation: Exit to bus ramp meet @ pic1 pic2 lasacs.com/ask/222 (bookmark, ?) Google Classroom BLEND (can you see class) snipping tool Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling Computer Science Club Women in Computer Science Club (WICS) UIL Competitions/CTFs/NACLO, Cyberpatriot, Online Challenges In File Explorer Organize -> Folder and search options -> View Tab -> Uncheck “Hide extensions for know file types” [email protected] include Period # in email subject and name in e-mail body What’s nEEw? Texas Ramp Project AC vs DC, Tesla vs Edison, resistor/capacitor/inductor, transistor – CMOS/bipolar)

Data Representation – Number Systems

Combinational Logic Circuits

Transistor Circuits

DC Circuits

Getting Started