Digital Hardware

This first-year course covers the fundamentals of digital logic and computer architecture. Others have taken over the course and enhanced it with a set of Powerpoint slides. All that appears here is the set of documents I prepared when I gave the course.

Lecture notes

• Scanned images of my notes (sorry about the handwriting).
• A note about the carry lookahead adder.

Problem sheets

• Problem sheet 1.
• Problem sheet 2.
• Problem sheet 3.
• Problem sheet 4.

My answers to these problems can be found on the general solutions page.

Laboratory materials

The course has one practical exercise, using Haskell to build a simulation of a carry lookahead adder.

• Practical instructions.
• File Adder.hs.
• My solution, a file Adder.ans.