Digital Systems Design: From beginner to MCU design

Learn Digital Circuits Design, bit by bit

What you’ll learn
Learn the basics of Digital Circuits Design
Numerical Systems: from decimal to binary to hexadecimal representations
Boolean Algebra and optimization techniques: All featuring examples and exercises for you to practice
Combinatorial and Sequential logic design: All featuring examples and exercises for you to practice
Introduction to Verilog and VHDL
State Machines design: All featuring examples and exercises for you to practice
Learn how to use digital circuits design tools to simulate digital circuits
How to simplify a problem by decomposing them into smaller hierarchical problems
Project 1: Build a digital circuit to control a semaphore
Project 2: Build a digital circuit to control a walking robot
Final project: Build a fully functional 4-bit microprocessor

Requirements
This course is aimed to beginners who want to step into the incredible and challenging world of digital circuits design. Thus, no prior knowledge is required to be able to fully understand the course content. Some knowledge on electronics is advantageous, but it is not required.

Description
On Digital Systems Design you will learn all the basics to be able to design digital circuits.

We will start by exploring the different numerical systems and Boolean logic, followed by optimization techniques. You will also learn how to convert Boolean expressions into digital logic, and how to decompose complex problems into smaller ones, to build hierarchical solutions.

The course follows a learn by example and by doing methodology, with theoretical concepts first being introduced, followed by a practical example, and afterwards a challenge for you to try out what you have just learned.

To provide you with a bigger challenge to truly test your skills and everything you have just learned throughout the many lectures, the course ends with a final project, in which you will build a fully functional 4-bit microprocessor, using the digital systems design tool (which is presented and introduced during the course).

So if you are a hobbyist searching for a good introduction to digital systems design, or a student on electronics that wants to learn more about digital systems, this course is for you!

When buying this course, you will have lifetime access to all the video content with the classes, the solutions for all the challenges that you can load on the digital systems design tool introduced in the course, as well as all future updates that are planned for the course, with more examples, challenges and video quality improvement.

What are the course requirements?

– Access to a computer with java to be able to run the digital systems design tool

Who this course is for
Electronics students willing to learn about digital circuits design
Hobbyists searching to learn more about digital circuits design
Engineers willing to enter the world of digital hardware design