Mar 13, 2026  
GRCC Curriculum Database (2025-2026 Academic Year) 
    
GRCC Curriculum Database (2025-2026 Academic Year)
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EL 262 - Digital Logic Circuits (Advanced)


Description
This course explores digital gates, flip-flops, counters, registers, multiplexers, and analog-to-digital converters. Application of digital circuits is emphasized.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact Hours: 6
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: EL 132  (D- or Higher) or D- or Higher in one of the following: MA 107 , MA 108 , MA 110 , MA 129 , MA 131 , or MA 133  
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): EL 161  
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: No
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Electronics Engineering Technology Certificate, Electronics Engineering Technology, A.A.A.S
General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Compare the function of digital gates.
  2. Apply digital flip-flop circuits.
  3. Develop applications for multiplexers, demultiplexers, decoders, and encoders.
  4. Understand and use ALUs.
  5. Construct half and full Adders.
  6. Wire and use a digital-to-analog converter.
  7. Wire and use an analog-to-digital converter.
  8. Apply a counter as a part of a keyboard scanning circuit.
  9. When communicating, use language that is appropriate to the audience. 
  10. Use creativity and alternative thinking to brainstorm new ideas and possible solutions to problems and issues.
  11. Use rules or frameworks to provide context for and understand problems or issues. 

Course Outline:
I. Digital Gate Circuits

II. Flip-Flop Circuits

III. The Use of MultiSim for Digital Circuits

IV. Counter Circuits

V. Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Decoders, and Priority Encoders

VI. Exclusive OR Circuits, Parity Generator, Parallel Adder, and Arithmetic Logic Unit

VII. Analog-to-Digital Converters and Digital-to-Analog Converters


Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
No
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture - Approximately:  40-60%

Lab - Approximately:  40-60%
Mandatory Course Components:
None
Equivalent Courses:
None


Accepted GRCC Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: N/A
Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture/Lab - Must meet Lecture & Lab Ratios
Total Lecture/Lab Hours Per Week: 6
People Soft Course ID Number: 101454
Course CIP Code: 15.9999
Maximum Course Enrollment: 18
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Articulation Agreement With What Area: No
Identify the Non Credit Programs this Course is Accepted: NA


School: School of Business & Industry
Department: Applied Technology
Discipline: EL
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Professionally qualified through work experience in field (Perkins Act or Other) (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
The instructor must have at least 2 years of work experience in the Electronics field to effectively teach this course.
Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20230216T17:59:42
Course Review & Revision Year: 2027-2028



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