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Postgraduate Handbook 2015-2016 (archived)

Module ENGI42315: Digital Electronics

Department: Engineering

ENGI42315: Digital Electronics

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Tied	4	15	Not available in 2015/2016		Durham

Tied To

H1K709: Communications Engineering

Pre-requisites

Communicational Fundamentals (ENGI30215) or equivalent

Corequisites

Radio and Digital Communications (ENGI41915); Communications Networks (ENGI42015); Engineering Design (ENGI41030); Research and Development Project (ENGI41060).

Excluded Combinations

None

Aims

To introduce current approaches and techniques relevant to large-scale logic design.

Content

Hardware description languages (including VHDL) and the process circuit realisation.
Asynchronous circuit design.
Integer and floating point arithmetic circuits.
Fault modelling, stuck-at faults.
Design of test set, path sesitisation, the D algorithm.
Sequential logic testing, scan methods, boundary scan.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

An understanding of current methods for implementing digital circuits.
Application of hardware description languages including VHDL.
Design as asynchronous circuits.
Design of arithmetic circuits, integer and floating point.
Design of test procedures, understanding of the operation of test systems including boundary scan.

Subject-specific Skills

Key Skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching by lectures and tutorials which are supported by summative and formative coursework programme.
Written examinations are appropriate because of the wide range of in-depth, analytical material that is covered.
Theoretical and laboratory-based coursework contribute a formative element to the module and aid the acquisition of subject-specific and key skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Lectures	20	1 per week	1 hour	20
Tutorials	20	1 per week	1 hour	20
Preparation and Reading				110
Total				150

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Examination	80%	Examination	2 hours	100%
Coursework	20%	Coursework		100%

Formative Assessment

One piece of coursework, which will be assessed but not included in the final average.

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.