COM4LAB: Digital Technology II

The COM4LAB course entitled “Digital Technology II” is the second course on the fundamentals of digital technology. This course explores several flip-flop types and various flip-flop applications such as counters, shift registers and parallel-serial converters. The course, comprising 12 chapters, also examines the troubleshooting procedure in detail.

Total duration: 5 hours

Target audience

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

• electronics technician for automation technology
• electronics technician for energy and building technology
• electronics technician for devices and systems
• electronics technician for information and system technology
• electronics technician for machine and drive technology
• aircraft electronics technician
• information electronics technician
• system electronics technician

Learning objectives

The students should:

• be able to understand the setup, function and functional principle of the individual flip-flops,
• become familiar with use of flip-flops and other multivibrators and
• be able to perform troubleshooting procedures on the logic components.

Topics

The course covers the following topics:

• bistable multivibrators

  SR flip-flop – clocked SR flip-flop – D flip-flop – JK flip-flop – JK master-slave flip-flop

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

  frequency divider – counter – shift register – parallel-serial converter

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.