Lecture 2

Topic: Digital logic circuits (II)

Purpose of the lecture:
Students will have to understand concepts of combinational and sequential logic
circuits, different types of Flip-Flops.
Basic terms of the lecture:
Combinational and sequential logic, flip-flops
Short abstracts:
In electronics, flip-flops and latches are circuits that have two stable states that can store
state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state
by signals applied to one or more control inputs and will output its state (often along with
its logical complement too). It is the basic storage element in sequential logic. Flip-flops and
latches are fundamental building blocks of digital electronics systems used in computers,
communications, and many other types of systems .
In digital circuit theory, sequential logic is a type of logic circuit whose output depends
not only on the present value of its input signals but on the sequence of past inputs, the input
history as well. This is in contrast to combinational logic, whose output is a function of only
the present input.
Main questions of the lecture:
1) Describe the sequential and combinational logic circuits
2) Describe the difference of sequential and combinational logic circuits
3) Describe the different types of Flip-Flops.
Recommended list of literature sources:
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May 2017.
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Additional:
7. John L. Hennessy and David Patterson (2006). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative
Approach (Fourth ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-370490-0.
8. A.J Vande Goor, Computer Architecture and Design, Addison Wesley; Wokingham, UK,
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10. https://www.w3schools.in/computer-fundamentals/types-of-computer-architecture
11. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-organization-and-architecture-tutorials/

Main contents of the lecture: