Crash Course Digital Electronics

Master Digital Electronics and Robotics. Go from Zero to building a real CPU !

4.57 (496 reviews)

Udemy

platform

English

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Hardware

What you will learn

Core concepts in digital electronics

How a CPU works by building one from scratch

How microprocessors and microcontrollers work and the difference between the two

How softwares are loaded and executed on a microprocessor and a microcontroller

Key building blocks of designing a CPU, a microprocessor and a microcontroller

Memory types like Register, Cache, RAM, SRAM, DRAM, ROM, EEPROM and Flash

The different peripherals that exists in both microprocessor and microcontroller

How has technology progressed starting from the 18th century up to 2022

The different communication protocols that are extensively used in a microcontroller

How operating systems (OS) work and why we need them in the first place

The concepts you will learn can be applied in Robotics, Embedded Software Engineering, Computer Science and of course, Electronics

A solid foundation in the area of digital electronics on which it's easy to build and grow your knowledge

Why take this course?

Welcome to Crash Course Digital Electronics!

CAUTION: If you don't like history, in particular, you are not interested in finding out how the technology has evolved from ancient programming methods to high-level programming languages, or how we scaled from Intel 4004 (first MPU in the world) with a transistor count of just 2300 to modern microprocessors like the M1 microprocessor with a transistor count of a whopping 16 billion, then this course is not for you.

This course was developed to teach not only how the fundamental parts of digital electronics work, but how on earth we have reached to build such amazing things? We are going back all the way to 1839 to the Jacquard machine which is considered as the first programmable mechanical computer that was programmed using punch cards, all the way to modern compilers, programming languages, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and operating systems.

All the tutorials are built using animation techniques to illustrate the concepts and for ease of understanding (I'm not the best animator by far, but I'm trying really hard !).

Your knowledge will be tested! - After finishing a chapter, you will be given a quiz with a plethora of questions (including images and diagrams) you will need to answer. If you get them right, you can be confident that you have understood what I had to say in that chapter.

Overall what you will learn after finishing this course :

- the basics of digital electronics

- how positive/negative numbers, floating-point numbers, characters are encoded in binary

- how a CPU works by building one from SCRATCH!

- how a program is executed on a CPU

- how to build an external RAM, starting from a 1-bit memory cell and how to scale it up to a bigger one

- the difference between a CPU, a Microprocessor and a Microcontroller

- how a Microprocessor and a Microcontroller works

- the multitude of internal peripherals that can be found inside a modern Microprocessor and a Microcontroller

- how a compiler works, including linker and linker script file

- how to program a microcontroller

- how the different communication protocols work in a microcontroller

- how does an Operating System works and why do we need them

REMEMBER… I'm so confident that you'll love this course that we're offering a FULL money-back guarantee for 30 days! So it's a complete no-brainer, sign up today with ZERO risk and EVERYTHING to gain.

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Reviews

Andrei

October 10, 2023

The best course on electronics and digital design, the instructor explains so well basic and fundamental principles as well as in-depth details. Also the quizes are comprehensive and at every chapter. Amazing that it exists!

OSMAN

June 30, 2023

One-of-a-kind course for students with a bachelor's degree in any engineering discipline other than electronic engineering

Krystian

May 14, 2023

I normaly don't have a need to leave review after goin through a course, but not this time, i really appreciate how good this course is and how good topics are structured, for me it is game changer if it comes to the digital electornics, since i got my way to go with this grasp of digital electornics, its time to maybe go with a lot more complicated topics.

Daniel

May 6, 2023

Im satisfied with this course, it's very complete, the topics are pretty good explained and the is nice. I hope the teacher will do a course to practice all these topics and concepts, i mean, a course to create several useful projects with arduino, some others MCUs and raspberry pi, you know here are the whole theory, but a lot of practice would be so amazing :D.

Gabriel

May 2, 2023

I'm enjoying a lot this course! All the explanatios are very clear, about the logic gates, how moreless they are built, the part of the binary numbers was more clear than the explanatios I heard at the Uni, :v. The instructor is a really expert of this topic and He does very fun references wich make more enjoyable the experience of learning Digital Electronics. Something I love the most from the course are also the subtitles, you can take the notes directly from the transcription and print the screenshots for demonstrations or slides. So it's more easy to me to watch the whole section and then take the notes and ilustrations at the very final of the section.

Ilia

March 18, 2023

The content of the course is good in overall. However, there are many unrelated/repeating/"google it" questions in the quizzes...

Nithin

March 5, 2023

Good one. Learned the basics of digital electronics. Also, learned the basics of microprocessors and microcontrollers. This will help expand the learning toward more digital electronics or microprocessors. Really recommended.

Flavia

February 3, 2023

I wanted to learn something about basic hardware, communication protocols and OS and this course made the job! Clear explanation and some practical examples which clarify even more the concepts. Just one lack: CAN protocol.

January 26, 2023

I love it, I learned a ton! I have been working with digital electronics as a hobbyist and have always wondered how it actually works, now I've got the answer! Buy it and thank me later 10/10

Bongo

November 13, 2022

its an okay course so far, alot of history which was interesting to know. some concepts do get difficult since i dont do programming but is explained well. i recommend you do this course with a college course or his analog design course too.

Ryan

November 4, 2022

It was a good match, lots of useful info. Just a little bogged down with the history of the tech rather than common applications and use cases. I found the instructor a bit tricky to follow with certain concepts which is what it is, can't really be helped.

Bogdan

October 30, 2022

Pro: Great course with great explinations. I feel it achieved it’s goal to pass that level of knowledge. Con: The quizes are over kill in my opinion. The quizes are way too long, the questions are sometime not about the knowledge but about details in the course (like name of a person or year of an event, irelevant in my opinion).

Carlos

October 23, 2022

I must admit that I was a little bit pessimistic about the course at first due to relative history matters. But it became so interesting to me when I reached logic gates portion and CPU operation, etc. I always wanted to learn exactly the operation of the microprocessor system. And this was presented clearly in this course. Also, using an excellent imaging system makes the course easy to grasp and fun, not to mention perking up further my interest on CPUs.

James

October 7, 2022

I have completed this course after paying for it on Udemy and found it very helpful and the topic was well explained. I initially gave a 5 star review but I went over to youtube and found that most of the script for this course has been copied word for word from "Crash Course: Computer Science". Which is available for free. I feel a bit scammed by this. However, some of the material doesn't seem to be stolen from Crash Course on youtube. Whether it is stolen from somewhere else though I am not sure. I haven't asked for a refund as I don't want to loose the information that I can't find on youtube. Just feel quite soured by the obvious theft here. Unless of course if the injustice is the other way around, then I am happy I have given money to this person.

David