This course aims to train to develop basic techniques and practical skills necessary to design modern digital systems. It covers logic design fundamentals, modern design tools, digital design with VHDL, advanced techniques for stable and high-speed digital system design, digital design techniques using fixed-function ICs, programmable logic devices such as FPGA, interfacing techniques (for memory devices, USB, LVDS, and PCI), and practical issues for board-level designs. All design techniques are taught with design examples including simple logic circuits, sequence controller, a PC-based function generator, and a simple processor. Students are required to carry out team projects.

This course helps you understand how the static charges and steady currents generate electric and magnetic fields. By way of the two field quantities, electromagnetic theory enables us to calculate electric currents and voltages on circuits and to determine device parameters such as resistances, capacitances and inductances. Lectures rely mainly on qualitative description of electric and magnetic phenomena based on physical laws. Quantitative explanations are also offered using vector calculus, which helps to calculate electric and magnetic field as well as voltages and currents. After taking this course, students will obtain knowledge of working principles of circuit devices and mathematical skills needed to analyze electromagnetic phenomena.