2015/2016 Online Instructional Materials Correlation
Digital Electronics (PLTW)
8440 - 36 weeks
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8440
36
weeks
Digital Electronics (PLTW)
TASKS/COMPETENCIES
Correlation
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Personal Qualities and People
Skills
Demonstrate positive work
Required 1
ethic.
Required 2
Demonstrate integrity.
Required 3
Demonstrate teamwork skills.
Required 4
Demonstrate self-representation
skills.
Required 5
Demonstrate diversity
awareness.
Required 6
Demonstrate conflict-resolution
skills.
Required 7
Demonstrate creativity and
resourcefulness.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills
Required 8
Demonstrate effective speaking
and listening skills.
Required 9
Demonstrate effective reading
and writing skills.
Required 10
Demonstrate critical-thinking
and problem-solving skills.
Required 11
Demonstrate healthy behaviors
and safety skills.
Demonstrate an understanding
Required 12 of workplace organizations,
systems, and climates.
Required 13
Demonstrate lifelong-learning
skills.
Required 14
Demonstrate job-acquisition and
advancement skills.
Required 15
Demonstrate time-, task-, and
resource-management skills.
Required 16
Demonstrate job-specific
mathematics skills.
Required 17
Demonstrate customer-service
skills.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Technology Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate proficiency with
Required 18 technologies common to a
specific occupation.
Required 19
Demonstrate information
technology skills.
Demonstrate an understanding
Required 20 of Internet use and security
issues.
Required 21
Demonstrate
telecommunications skills.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
Examine aspects of planning
Required 22
within an industry/organization.
Required 23
Examine aspects of management
within an industry/organization.
Examine aspects of financial
Required 24 responsibility within an
industry/organization.
Examine technical and
production skills required of
Required 25
workers within an
industry/organization.
Examine principles of
Required 26 technology that underlie an
industry/organization.
Required 27
Examine labor issues related to
an industry/organization.
Examine community issues
Required 28 related to an
industry/organization.
Examine health, safety, and
Required 29 environmental issues related to
an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
Identify the purposes and goals
Required 30
of the student organization.
Explain the benefits and
responsibilities of membership
Required 31 in the student organization as a
student and in professional/civic
organizations as an adult.
Demonstrate leadership skills
through participation in student
Required 32 organization activities, such as
meetings, programs, and
projects.
Identify Internet safety issues
Required 33 and procedures for complying
with acceptable use standards.
Engineering Option 2: The following tasks are part of Virginia's "Project Lead
the Way" program. For course content and additional information, please
contact the Technology Education Specialist at the Virginia Department of
Education (804-786-4210).
FUNDAMENTALS OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
Exploring Foundations and the Board Game Counter
Required 34
Identify safety precautions for
working with electronics.
Identify the way numbers are
expressed in scientific notation,
Required 35 engineering notation, and
System International (SI)
notation.
Required 36
Identify common components
used in electronics.
Required 37
Determine a resistor’s nominal
value by reading its color code.
Determine a resistor’s actual
value by reading its resistance
Required 38
with a digital multimeter
(DMM).
Determine a capacitor’s nominal
Required 39 value by reading its labeled
nomenclature.
Required 40 Tin the tip of a soldering iron.
Solder and de-solder
Required 41 components on printed circuit
boards.
Investigating Analog
Identify the parts of an atom to
determine if an element would
Required 42
make a good conductor,
insulator, or semiconductor.
Solve for a simple series and
parallel circuit, using Ohm’s
Required 43
Law, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law,
and Kirchhoff’s Current Law.
Required 44
Analyze simple analog circuits,
using a circuit-design software.
Required 45
Analyze simple analog circuits,
using a breadboard and DMM.
Determine the amplitude,
period, frequency, and duty
Required 46
cycle of analog and digital
signals.
Analyze and design simple
Required 47 digital oscillators, using the 555
Timer chip.
Simulate and test a complete
Required 48 analog design, using circuit
design software (CDS).
Exploring Digital
Obtain and extract information
Required 49
from the manufacturer
datasheets for components
commonly used in digital
electronics.
Identify commonly used
electronic components by their
Required 50
part numbers or schematic
symbols.
Required 51
Identify various IC (integrated
circuit) package styles.
Explain the fundamental
differences between
Required 52
combinational and sequential
logic.
Identify and describe the
Required 53 function of AND, OR, and
inverter gates.
Simulate and test a simple
combinational logic circuit
Required 54
designed with AND, OR, and
inverter gates, using CDS.
Required 55
Describe the function of a D
flip-flop.
Simulate and test a simple
Required 56 sequential logic circuit design
with D flip-flops, using CDS.
Simulate and test a complete
design containing both
Required 57
combinational and sequential
logic, using CDS.
COMBINATIONAL LOGIC
Exploring AND-OR-Invert (AOI) Logic
Convert numbers between the
Required 58 binary and decimal number
systems.
Required 59
Translate design specifications
into truth tables.
Required 60
Extract unsimplified logic
expressions from truth tables.
Required 61
Construct truth tables from logic
expressions.
Simplify logic expressions by
using the rules and laws of
Required 62
Boolean algebra, including
DeMorgan’s laws.
Analyze AOI combinational
logic circuits to determine their
Required 63
equivalent logic expressions and
truth tables.
Required 64
Design combinational logic
circuits, using AOI logic gates.
Translate a set of design
specifications into a functional
Required 65 AOI combinational logic circuit
following a formal design
process.
Simulate and prototype AOI
Required 66 logic circuits, using CDS and a
digital logic board (DLB).
Exploring NAND (NOT AND) and NOR (NOT OR) Logic
Simplify combinational logic
problems containing two, three,
Required 67
and four variables, using the KMapping technique.
Required 68
Solve K-Maps that contain one
or more Don’t Care conditions.
Design a combinational logic
Required 69 circuit, using NAND and NOR
logic gates.
Translate a set of design
specifications into a functional
Required 70 NAND or NOR combinational
logic circuit following a formal
design process.
Compare the quality of
combinational logic designs
Required 71
implemented with AOI, NAND,
and NOR logic gates.
Simulate and prototype NAND
Required 72 and NOR logic circuits, using
CDS and a DLB.
Exploring Date-of-Birth Design
Display alphanumeric values,
Required 73 using a seven-segment display
in a combinational logic design.
Select the appropriate currentlimiting resistor and wire both
Required 74
common cathode and common
anode seven-segment displays.
Translate a set of design
specifications for a design
containing multiple outputs into
Required 75
a functional, combinational
logic circuit by following a
formal design process.
Design AOI, NAND, and NOR
solutions for a logic expression
Required 76 and select the solution that uses
the least number of ICs to
implement.
Simulate and prototype AOI,
Required 77 NAND, and NOR logic circuits,
using CDS and a DLB.
Exploring Specific Comb Logic Circuits and Miscellaneous Topics
Convert numbers between the
hexadecimal or octal number
Required 78
systems and the decimal number
system.
Design binary half-adders and
Required 79 full-adders, using XOR and
XNOR gates.
Design and implement binary
adders, using small-scale
Required 80
integration (SSI) and mediumscale integration (MSI) gates.
Design electronics displays,
Required 81 using seven-segment displays
that use de-multiplexers.
Add and subtract binary
Required 82 numbers, using the two’s
complement process.
Simulate and prototype-specific
Required 83 combinational logic circuits,
using CDS and a DLB.
Exploring Programmable Logic—Combinational
Design combinational logic
Required 84 circuits, using a programmable
logic device.
Compare the advantages and
disadvantages of programmable
Required 85
logic devices with those of
discrete logic gates.
Simulate and prototype
combinational logic designs
Required 86 implemented with
programmable logic, using CDS
and a DLB.
SEQUENTIAL LOGIC
Exploring Latches and Flip-Flops
Identify the schematic symbols
and excitation tables for the D
Required 87
(data) and J/K (set/reset) flipflops.
Required 88
Describe the function of the D
and J/K flip-flops.
Describe the function of, and
differences between, levelRequired 89
sensitive and edge-sensitive
triggers.
Describe the function of, and
Required 90 differences between, active-high
and active-low signals.
Describe the function of, and
differences between, a flipRequired 91
flop’s synchronous and
asynchronous inputs.
Draw detailed timing diagrams
for the D or J/K flip-flop’s Q
Required 92 output in response to a variety of
synchronous and asynchronous
input conditions.
Analyze and design introductory
flip-flop applications, such as
Required 93 event-detection circuits, data
synchronizers, shift registers,
and frequency dividers.
Simulate and prototype
introductory flip-flop
Required 94
applications, using CDS and a
DLB.
Exploring Asynchronous Counters
Explain the advantages and
disadvantages of counters
Required 95
designed using the
asynchronous-counter method.
Required 96
Describe the ripple effect of an
asynchronous counter.
Analyze and design up, down,
and modulus asynchronous
Required 97
counters, using discrete D and
J/K flip-flops.
Analyze and design up, down,
and modulus asynchronous
Required 98
counters, using MSI circuit
counters.
Simulate and prototype SSI and
Required 99 MSI asynchronous counters,
using CDS and a DLB.
Exploring Synchronous Counters
Explain the advantages and
disadvantage of counters
Required 100
designed using the synchronouscounter method.
Analyze and design up, down,
and modulus synchronous
Required 101
counters, using discrete D and
J/K flip-flops.
Analyze and design up, down,
and modulus synchronous
Required 102
counters, using MSI circuit
counters.
Simulate and prototype SSI and
Required 103 MSI synchronous counters,
using CDS and a DLB.
Exploring State-Machine Design
Describe the components of a
Required 104
state machine.
Draw a state graph and construct
Required 105 a state transition table for a state
machine.
Derive a state machine’s
Required 106 Boolean equations from its state
transition table.
Required 107
Implement Boolean equations
into a functional state machine.
Describe the two variations of
Required 108 state machines and list the
advantages of each.
Simulate and prototype state
machines' designs implemented
Required 109
with discrete and programmable
logic, using CDS and a DLB.
MICROCONTROLLERS
Exploring Microcontrollers
Create flowcharts to use in
Required 110
programming.
Required 111 Write microcontroller programs.
Required 112
Create a program that uses the
debug screen.
Required 113
Create programs that use
variables.
Required 114
Create programs that use various
loops.
Required 115
Create programs that use inputs
and outputs.
Exploring the Microcontroller: Hardware
Required 116 Program a servo motor.
Required 117
Program and test an autonomous
robot.
Required 118
Calculate programming values,
using mathematics.
Exploring the Microcontroller: Process Control
Required 119 Design and build a maze course.
Required 120
Design and build a timing
device with remote triggers.
Required 121
Program a microcontroller to
guide a robot through a maze.