Introduction to the hardware realization of digital systems - logic, Boolean algebra and functions, gates, latches and flip flops, combinational and sequential circuits, finite state machine, properties basic circuits as multiplexers, decoders, registers, counters, adders.
Introduction to representation of information in the digital systems - numeral number systems with any radix, importance of binary and decimal numeral systems, binary and hexadecimal arithmetic operations, representation of glyphs and characters, ASCII code, UNICODE, representation of integer and real numbers.