BBC201

Digital Electronics

L-T-P3-1-0 Credits4 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

BCA · Sem 2 (Core)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Binary Systems

8 hrs

Digital computers and Digital systems, Binary Numbers, Number Base conversion, Octal & Hexa-decimal numbers, Complements, Binary codes.

Unit2

Unit 2: Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates

8 hrs

Basic definitions, Axiomatic definition, Basic theorems and Properties, Boolean Functions, Canonical and Standard Forms, Other Logic Operations, Digital Logic Gates.

Unit3

Unit 3: Simplification of Boolean Functions

8 hrs

The Map method, two, three, four, five and six variable maps, Product of Sums and Sum of Products simplification, NAND and NOR implementation, Other two-level implementations, Don’t-Care conditions, The Tabulation method, Determination and selection of Prime-Implicants.

Unit4

Unit 4: Combinational Logic

8 hrs

Design procedure, Adders, Subtractors, Code conversion, Analysis procedure, Multilevel NAND and NOR circuits, Exclusive-OR and Equivalence Functions, Binary Parallel Adder, Decimal Adder, Magnitude comparator, Decoders, Multiplexers.

Unit5

Unit 5: Sequential Logic, Registers and Counters

8 hrs

Flip-Flops, Triggering of Flip-Flops, Analysis of Clocked Sequential Circuits, State Reduction and Assignment, Flip-Flop Excitation Tables, Design procedure, Design of Counters, Design with State Equations, Registers, Shift Registers, Ripple Counters, Synchronous Counters, Timing Sequences.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Apply concepts of Digital Binary System, complements and Binary codes.K3
  2. CO2Apply the concepts of Boolean Algebra and logic gates.K3
  3. CO3Understand and implementation of gates.K2, K3
  4. CO4Analyze and Design of Combinational logic circuits.K4
  5. CO5Analysis and design sequential logic circuits with their applications. Implement the design procedure of synchronous and asynchronous sequential circuits.K3, K4

Suggested Readings

  1. Mano M., “Digital Logic and Computer Design”, Pearson.
  2. Mano M., “Digital Design”, Prentice-Hall of India.
  3. Gaur R.K., “Digital Electronics and Micro-computers”, Dhanpat Rai Publications.
  4. Jain R.P. “Modern Digital Electronics”, McGraw-Hill Education.
  5. Malvino A.P. and Leach D.P., “Digital Principles and Applications”, McGraw-Hill Education.
  6. Rajaraman V. and Radhakrishanan T., “An Introduction to Digital Computer Design”, Prentice-Hall India Pvt. Ltd.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 11 of the original AKTU PDF.

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