ERS220 Digital Systems

Name Office Contact

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Lecturer Prof Trudi-H Joubert CEFIM 2-5 eece.ers220@gmail.com
Laboratory Mr Willem van
Eng III 7-67 willem.vanjaarsveld@up.ac.za
Instructor Jaarsveld
Assistant Archie Rohde Refer to ERS220CommsSheet
Liebet Joubert ClickUP eece.ers220@gmail.com
lecturers
Admin Ms Marcia Ndala Eng I, 15-8
eece.undergraduate@up.ac.za
Ms Mari Ferreira Eng III, 7-19
Tutors Refer to ClickUp AMS AMS

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Study Themes and Study Units Contribution

1. Introduction to Digital Systems 25%

SU 1 Overview
SU 2 Digital design fundamentals
SU 3 Programmable logic devices
SU 4 Design tools

2. Combinational Logic Design 25%

SU 5 Combinational design procedures
SU 6 Combinational logic timing analysis
SU 7 Combinational logic optimizations and trade-offs
SU 8 Hardware description (HDL) for combinational logic

3. Sequential Logic Design 25%

SU 9 Bistable elements and flip-flops
SU 10 Finite State Machines (FSMs)
SU 11 Sequential logic optimizations and trade-offs
SU 12 Hardware description (HDL) for sequential logic

4. Digital Component Design 25%

SU 13 Datapath components
SU 14 Introduction to Register transfer level (RTL) design

100%

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 ERS220 Semester marks (SG) and Subminima (SMM)

• Individual written (W) component: SMM 40%

- Semester Test 1-2 (S) @ equal contribution: 70% to SG
- Class tests 1-3 (C) @ equal contribution: 10% to SG
• Laboratory component (L): SMM 50%
- Laboratories 1-3 @ equal contribution: 15% to SG
- Each demonstration (D) for group: SMM 50%
- Report (R) per group and individual lab book (B)
- L01 weights: D01 50%, R01 40%, B01 10%
- L02 weights: D01 50%, R01 40%, B01 10%
- L03 weights: D01 70%, B03 30%
• Individual practical test: SMM 40%
- Practical Test (P): 5% to SG
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 ERS220 Prescribed Textbooks

LaMeres YouTube Series AKA “Chicken Book”

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 ERS220 Prescribed laboratory resources
FPGA and VHDL Discrete CotS components
Terasic DE10-Lite

Laboratory assignments Components

1. Navigation control for line-following car 1. EBN kit
2. Flipism Tool 2. Purchase list on ClickUP
3. Ping-pong game ERS220 Introduction 11
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