General aspects of digital circuits and time response, delay and power consumption issues. Inverters and gates based on TTL, ECL, MOS and CMOS families, with ephasis on the latter. Use of SPICE for the analysis of the above circuits. Combinatorial digital circuits: adders, comparators, parity, multiplexers/demultiplexers, encoders/de-coders, ROM structures and applications. Sequential digital circuits: flip/flops, counters, timing circuits, memories. Dynamic structures for VLSI digital circuits and systems: dynamic MOS cells and RAMs. Digital system design using MSI components and FPGA development tools. This course is accompanied by laboratory exercises that comprise all the above aspects.