Digital Logic
Essential Questions:
How are computers built?
Content:
* Digital vs. analog signals
* Fundamental logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, NAND, NOR)
* Binary arithmetic
* How digital logic gates are used to perform binary arithmetic
* Flip-flops
* How flip-flops are used to store binary numbers
* Design of a simple computer
* Machine language
Skills and Processes:
* how to design combinatorial digital logic circuits
* how to use sequential digital logic circuits (flip-flops)
* how to add binary numbers
* How to convert binary to decimal and decimal to binary
* How to use breadboards and ICs
Assessment:
* Design a 4-bit, 3-register computer using a digital logic simulator
* Build same computer using breadboards and ICs (class team project)