Students learn about:

My Notes & Practical Work

•           logic gates, including:

            –          AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR

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•           truth tables

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•           circuit design steps

            –          identify inputs and outputs

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            –          identify required components

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            –          check solution with a truth table

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            –          evaluate the circuit design

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•           specialty circuits, including:

            –          half adder

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            –          full adder

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            –          flip-flops as a memory store

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Students learn to:

•           generate truth tables for a given circuit

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•           describe the purpose of a circuit from its truth table

•           design a circuit to solve a given problem and use a truth             table to verify the design

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•           explain how a flip-flop can be used in the storage and             shifting of a bit in memory

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•           build and test a circuit using integrated circuits or use a             software package

My breadboard projects

Shareware program(right click-needs installation)

•           simulate the testing of a circuit for both user-designed             circuits and the specialty circuits

My breadboard projects

Shareware program(right click-needs installation)

•           recognise the cyclical approach to circuit design

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•           modify an existing circuit design to reflect changed               requirements

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