Level 6 Graduate Diploma in Engineering (9210-01) - City & Guilds

Outcome 3 Analyse, design and apply digital circuits and systems
The learner can:
1. Implement simple combinational circuits using logic gates in integrated circuit form.
2. Identify the merits and demerits of different logic families, TTL, ECL, NMOS, and CMOS.
3. Apply Boolean theorems, reduction techniques and Karnaugh maps.
4. Design combinational logic circuits having up to five variables.
5. Design half and full adders, code converters, comparators, decoders, encoders and
multiplexers.
6. Implement combinational logic functions using programmable devices: read only memory
(PROM), programmable logic array (PLA) and programmable array logic (PAL) structures and
microcontrollers (PIC).
7. Apply state diagrams and tables, simple state reduction methods and excitation tables.
8. Analyse and design sequential logic circuits using RS, JK and D type flip flops.
9. Analyse, synthesise and design shift registers and counters.
10. Apply simple concepts of sampling and multiplexing for data acquisition.
11. Describe the structure, operation and make speed/cost comparisons for common forms of
analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters.
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