Study Guide
In order to perform well on your next exam, you should be able to do the following:
1. Use Karnaugh Maps to minimize completely and incompletely specified Boolean
functions both in product-of-sum, and sum-of-product forms.
2. Given a problem describing a combinational logic circuit, derive a truth table,
Boolean equations, and logic diagram.
3. Analyze combinational logic circuits.
4. Given a Boolean function, implement the circuit it represents using decoders and
multiplexers.
5. Explain in your own words how decoders and multiplexers function.
6. Combine (cascade) decoders to create a large one.
7. Combine (cascade) multiplexers to create a large one.
8. Given a logic diagram or a problem describing a combinational logic circuit, write
the Verilog code to describe it.
9. Understand and be able to define, and derive parameters such as: transition
time, propagation delay, fanout, power dissipation, and DC noise margins.
10. Understand and be able to define unused inputs, and logic familes.
11. Classify Digital Logic Circuits.
12. List, analyze, sketch timing diagrams, predict next state, and use all the latches
and flip-flops discussed in class.
13. Synthesize sequential logic circuits using flip-flops and latches.
14. Given a logic diagram or a problem describing a sequential logic circuit, write the
Verilog code to describe it.
15. Understand and be able to define and use open collector and tri-states devices.
16. Understand and be able to interface memory to a microcomputer.
17. Understand and be able to use and synthesize circuits such as: counters,
sequence detectors, ALUs, and shift registers.
You will need a blue book to take the examination.
