Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Mini-project 1 released!

Mini-project 1 has been released. You can click HERE to find it (or in the folder of Labs and Mini-Projects on https://ssde3340.blogspot.com/). 

Your work (report, codes, and narrative demo video) will be submitted via email to me and Tuan by the deadline (14:00 October 21. 2026). 

You should pay attention to the requirements and hints stated in the mini project. You should also pay special attention to how and where AI is allowed and prohibited with the mini-project.  

The oral exam will be conducted from 1:30-5:30 on October 22, 2026 (we will send the schedule later). You will be examined through questions related to this project requirements and your performance of project work. You may be required to give live demonstration of your work. 

Lab on Oct 08 will be dedicated to help you understand and start the project!




Lecture 1-5: Digital circuits and combinational logics

We have completed the lecture 5 - Digital circuits and combinational logic circus design.

In this lecture, we have learn how to build up an integrated circuit (functional circuits) from seven primitive logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR). 

We have also studied how to build up the key functional integrated circuits (Enablers, Selectors, Decoders, Multiplexers, etc) from the primitive logic gates and inherit them to build up larger circuits, e.g. 3-to-8 decoder, multiplexers. 


Monday, 5 October 2026

Lecture 1-4: Number Systems

In this lecture, we learnt the following topics:
- Decimal, Binary, Octal, HexaDecimal number systems and the conversion between the number systems. 
- Four standard arithmetic computations and their computational operations. 
- Complement of a number in a r_base system
- Several examples of 1s and 2s complement to illustrate their implication in computer systems.
- The relationship between the 1s and 2s complements.