COM4LAB: Automotive Digital Technology II

The COM4LAB course entitled “Automotive Digital Technology II” looks at several types of flip-flop and various flip-flop applications, including counters or shift registers. The subject areas are matched to automotive technology in a realistic and applied manner. The course, comprising 8 chapters, also examines the troubleshooting procedure in detail.

Total duration: 4 hours

Target audience

Among others, the course can be used to support the training process for the following professions:

• automotive mechatronics technician

Learning objectives

The students should be able to:

• to understand the setup, function and functional principle of the individual flip-flops,
• become familiar with use of flip-flops and other multivibrators and
• run a troubleshooting procedure on the logic components.

Topics

The course covers the following topics:

• bistable multivibrators

  SR flip-flop – clocked SR flip-flop – JK flip-flop

• monostable and astable multivibrator
• Schmitt trigger
• flip-flop applications

  counter – shift register

Previous knowledge

The students do not need any previous knowledge of digital technology in order to be able to complete the course successfully. Dealing with simple formulas is, however, required.