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ECE 108Digital Circuits

4 units · ECE · UC San Diego

A transistor-level view of digital integrated circuits. CMOS combinational logic, ratioed logic, noise margins, rise and fall delays, power dissipation, transmission gates. Short channel MOS model, effects on scaling. Sequential circuits, memory and array logic circuits. Three hours of lecture, one hour of discussion, three hours of laboratory. Students may not receive credit for both ECE 108 and ECE 165.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “ECE 25 or CSE 140, 45, and ECE 30 or CSE 30. Open to EC26 and CS25 major codes only.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (2 programs).

Required in (2)

  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Engineering (B.S.)