Learner Reviews & Feedback for Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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RT
Jul 21, 2020
This was my 4th online course and I am pretty sure this was my best experience. Everything was covered in detail and yet very precisely. Thanks to both coursera and UAB for this course.
SN
Mar 20, 2020
Pretty awesome, the course gives you a good understanding of all basic concepts and the practice, extra and graded problems make you intimately familiar with its applications.
126 - 150 of 186 Reviews for Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors
By Husham E A K
•Nov 13, 2017
The course was very good in terms teaching you how to design logic gates and build a processor and use VHDL code for that. I loved this course very much and I will start now doing the other courses that will help me develop a very complex processor. This is a good start for learners. It's very well described and you should always try to use mind and brain and try develop your skills to get to know the material. I really want one thing from lecturer is at least put some examples for students regarding week 7 and week 8. Because it was very hard for me to understand the content of these two weeks. Thanks for the effort that you have done on this course and I will wait for the next course of you.
By Patrick D
•Feb 4, 2018
It was a good course. I had taken it as an undergrad and it was great to take it as a review. It has VHDL and some more modern techniques like Shannon's cofactoring neither of which was taught when I took this course in 1990.
Introduced me to a couple of useful tools in logisim and Logic Minimizer.
I have been working with FPGAs and writing lots of VHDL code for quite some time, but this was good to good way to go back to basics and I feel like I hit the reset button and strengthened my foundation. This was every bit as good as taking the course in person, but I like this online approach better. You don't move on until you get it right and you can take your time.
By Nay L H
•Jul 14, 2021
A MOOC overall that could really benefit from a more active community/ instructors. It was fairly challenging for a beginner to follow, but still managable since the explanations were clear. Q&A sections were just bad, because there are open violations with people offering to exchange quiz answers and whatnot, but no one seems to be handling such posts that affect learning integrity, and rarely the case of anyone actually answering the question, so minus a star for this.
By Deleted A
•Jan 2, 2017
I already had done a digital logic course before. But, this course is different from that, as it is much more formal in describing a digital system. In this courses, the emphasis is on systems which is much welcome. The Processor topic is very interesting.
Although the videos could be made a little better. The content is interesting, but the presentation is a little dull.
I write this review after 4 weeks into the course. And, I personally am enjoying it.
By Nadia B
•Nov 8, 2022
Great introduction to logical circuit design. It is the first cours for to take the very beginners in RTL design. It would be nice to add more excercises on HDL programming and add more lectures about simulation/test benches. There are free online tools that provide access to simulators, such as edaplayground : it would be nice to complete this cours with some hands-on experience on RTL programming.
By Saksham G
•Feb 9, 2020
The content of this course justifies the title, it starts from the very basic digital electronics to advanced processor architecture. It covers the whole process, from design to implementation to manufacturing. Some of the quizzes were really good and I really liked solving them. The software used to submit the circuit design related solutions could have been better.
By Amr W A R S
•Sep 15, 2019
This course is very useful and will build a very strong foundation to digital systems. However, I strongly recommend that the instructor tries further enhancing his teaching skills, because in most of the weeks, the quiz is very much harder than the concepts introduced in the lectures. But they're all useful.
By Vedhas W
•Aug 7, 2019
The accents get in the way of learning at times, and the quizzes are a bit more challenging than what is introduced in the lectures, but it is overall a very interesting and comprehensive course. I definitely recommend this course to anyone willing to put in the time and effort to learn this key cs skillset.
By JAYANT G 1
•Mar 26, 2020
The course is very useful and must do to clear the basics of a digital system. The course is interesting also but the lecturer was very good no dought and experienced also but his voice is a little unclear due to which lectures become boring but the student can manage it by subtitles.
By Archit A
•Aug 9, 2018
A great course for someone starting out with digital design and simulation. The course work will progressively increase over the weeks but the concepts are brilliantly explained. I personally found the HDL lectures very monotonous. But other than that, the course is amazing.
By Isaac K
•May 17, 2020
Good material and coverage, good interactive quizzes in videos and end quizzes. The software on the virtual machine is a little rough to navigate at first and is pretty finicky however. Would find a way of incorporating the assignments in a better software.
By Zainab T T
•Jul 8, 2025
The VerilUOC desktop either keeps hanging, doesn't open or causes my laptop to crash. This affected my grades in Graded quiz 5 and 6 as I couldn't use it to get answers to some questions. Therefore beside that being unreliable, the course wasn't bad.
By Luan D
•Mar 12, 2018
Overall, it is a helpful and nice course introducing knowledge about digital circuits. While some parts could be improved, such as more explicit examples in the videos or including some VHDL practice exercises. Thanks.
By Deleted A
•May 4, 2020
Everything about the basics of Digital Electronics was clearly explained, touching almost all areas. I faced a little bit difficulty in following the English accent of some instructors.
By Jomel U S
•Dec 16, 2021
Overall very good exposure to Digital Systems/IC, but lacks the practices of physically writing VHDL code. Also, lectures are outdated when it comes to present technology for week 8.
By muratali m
•Mar 20, 2017
Very nice introductory course, broad explanation of traditional logic gates and synthesis tools. Graded Exercises and Practice exercises are chosen perfectly to grasp the topic
By Arquilho
•Jan 4, 2021
Good introductory course. It helped me to refresh my prior knowledge. I just missed a way to know which mistaques I made in some questions specially in the graded quizes.
By Pavan R
•Apr 20, 2017
This is a very good course for experts as well as beginners . Quiz assignments were very challenging . I like the concept of practice and solved quiz
By Sunday A
•Jul 10, 2022
The most interesting part of this course, for me, was the graded quiz. It was challenging , but nice.
I really learnt a lot.
Thank you
By GAVINI H
•May 13, 2020
It is really helpfull for the individuals who want to be perfect in digital design. And also can learn the basic processor design.
By praneethsharma
•Aug 16, 2020
Questions are good. It's better if they provide your way of solving the quiz questions and practice questions
By Padmakar R
•Oct 14, 2017
Great for getting back in touch with the subject. And it's design with the industry needs in mind.
By Adhiraj H S
•Feb 18, 2018
the theory questions in week 6 and 8 quizes were not covered properly in the material
By KI A
•Feb 17, 2020
the course is very interresting to get started with digital systems design