7400 Oscilloscope

I. Introduction

I, Naveed Ahmed and Umair Mukati are the students at IIEE (Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering), located in Karachi, Pakistan. We are currently in the 6^th semester of this course. The institute is under the affiliation of NEDUET (Nadirshaw Eduljee Dinshaw University of Engineering & Technology), located in Karachi, Pakistan, and it is a one of the department of PCSIR (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research). It was founded by the Swiss and Pakistani Government in 1985.

The project “Digital Oscilloscope” Is being submitted as an entry to “OPEN 7400 LOGIC CONTEST”, organized by Dangerous Prototypes. The oscilloscope has a bandwidth of 1KiloHertz. Yet it can just show the signal applied at its terminals, it does not have a facility to measure the voltage level. The voltage can be measured using some other sort of technique.

7400

We adopted to use Circuit Wizard Software to design our schamtic and layout as were in 2nd Semester that time.

7400 Based Digital Calculator

The project Digital Calculator is based on 74 series and 40 series logic and it is submitted for "Open 7400 Logic Contest" organized by Dangerous Prototypes.

Figure 1 - Bird View of the board

I, Umair Mukati and Naveed Ahmed are the students at IIEE (Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering), located in Karachi, Pakistan. We are currently in the 6^th semester of this course. The institute is under the affiliation of NEDUET (Nadirshaw Eduljee Dinshaw University of Engineering & Technology), located in Karachi, Pakistan, and it is a one of the department of PCSIR (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research). It was founded by the Swiss and Pakistani Government in 1985.

Open 7400 Logic Contest Banner

The project “DIGICALC” (Digital Calculator with Clear and Backspace) is one of an inspiration and was actually made as the assignment of our Digital Electronics II course. The project involves the techniques that we learnt in that course, from simple gate logic to the synchronous counters.

EDX - Online Education Programme

EDX, an online education platform, is a joint venture initially between MIT and Harvard University. A spreading field of online learning platforms, encompasses many famous universities and institutes around the world including, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and many others.

Keeping in mind, MIT launched MIT Open-Course-Ware in 2002. MIT Open-Course-Ware (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate and graduate level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere. The project was announced in October 2002 and uses Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. The initiative has inspired a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources.

A big name comes under interactive online education is from Stanford University’s project COURSERA. Many other big names are now following this tradition of Interactive-Online-Learning.

In 2012, MIT also steps in this new world education system by launching its first prototype course Circuit and Electronics 6.002x taught by Anant Agarwal. This prototype course is running, free of charge, for students worldwide from March 5, 2012 through June 8, 2012. Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the material and earn a certificate from MITx. I also attempted this course, and I really appreciated their work, in every aspect.