Program Overview

Program Overview

The Electrical Engineering program offers a course, EE 406: Digital Electronics, which aims to familiarize students with the basic concepts and mechanisms of operation and design of digital electronic circuits, both discrete and integrated.

Course Details

• Credits: 3
• Lab Hours: 0
• Lecture Hours: 3
• Tutoring Hours: 0

Course Description

This course covers topics including:

• An overview of MOS and BJT types, structures, and operation
• Digital logic inverters (voltage transfer characteristic, digital integrated circuit technologies, and logic-circuit families)
• CMOS inverters (dynamic operation of the CMOS inverter, inverter sizing, power dissipation)
• Logic-gate circuits (NOR, NAND, XOR)
• Propagation delay analysis
• Pseudo-NMOS logic circuits
• Gate circuits
• Pass-transistor logic circuits (NMOS transistors as switches, CMOS transmission gates as switches)
• Dynamic MOS logic circuits (Emitter-coupled logic (ECL) and families)
• BiCMOS inverters and logic gates
• Latches
• Flip-flop circuits
• Multivibrators
• An overview of memory circuits types and architectures
• A/D and D/A converters

Prerequisites and Corequisites

• Prerequisite Courses: EE 304: Microelectronics
• Corequisites: None

University Information

The program is offered by Alfaisal University, located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.