CEN 212 Logic Design II

This course introduces students to digital system design. Digital systems (such as the CPU) consist of datapath and control unit. The datapath is a collection of functional units that process data such as registers, ALU and buses. The control unit, on the other hand, commands the datapath components to do their operations. In this course, state machine diagrams (SMD) are used to design such digital systems. This course heavily depends on SMD to build digital systems from bottom up. It starts with basic memory elements such as latches and flip-flops, and shows at the end how to build a complete digital system based on these basic components.