Lab Guidelines for ECE3801
(Advance Logic Design)
Objective
This document contains two sections. In section one, we provide some generic guidelines
for the lab procedures. Section two describes the necessary components of your lab
reports.
Section I: Lab Procedures
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Lab experiments are in a group of two students. Each team hands in one lab
report. Each partner must attend in the lab, contribute to the experiment, and have
a separate lab notebook to document the experiment.
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You will use Nexys2 Starter board with the Xilinx ISE and Digilent Adept Suite.
You can get your own board from ECE shop. Xilinx ISE and Adept can be
downloaded from the course website. ISE and Adept are installed on all PC’s in
AK113, however you can always install a copy on your own PC and work on your
lab outside of class. We strongly recommend that you come to lab during lab
sessions so that you can get help in case you need it, and also you need to provide
a demo on your working design to the TA in order to get it signed off.
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In order to pass the course you need to submit all labs.
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Due dates for reports are posted on the class webpage.
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Save your projects on a network drive so you can access that later on. Local
drives are not a safe place to save your projects. Remember that you may need
some of your designs in future projects.
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You can archive each individual project in project navigator (Project->Archive
…). This creates a zip file of your current project.
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You can create a snapshot of your project (Project->Take Snapshot). This is
helpful when you are planning to make a big change in your project, in case you
want to go back to your original design.
Section II: Lab Reports
The main objective of the report is to communicate the results of your experiment and
designs with other people in a way that they can duplicate your work easily and use that
as a base line for building more advanced systems. Each team should submit one report
for each lab before the lab’s due date. You must prepare your report with a word
processor. Your report must include all schematics and simulated waveforms. We suggest
that you create a template for your reports based on the following guidelines and follow
that in all your reports. Your report must include all the requested information in the lab
description.
 Title : This includes the lab title, your name and your partner’s name, date
 Prelab: In some labs you may need to do some Prelab analysis and that may contain
some accompanying questions which you should answer in this section.
 Experiment and results:
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Description: Provide a brief description of the lab, motivation, its application,
and the underlying theory. Any design procedure K-maps, tables … should be
included in this section. Function/truth tables are also required in your report.
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Schematic of each major component of you design
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Simulation and Waveforms: Screen capture of functional, and in some cases
timing, simulations of major components
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Discussion of the functionality of your design and its performance based on
your results
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 Conclusion: A summary of your results, what you have learned, and how you can use
this design in future should be included at this part.
 Sign-off: This part must be signed and dated by TA of the course.
 References: In case you have used other resources, list them in this section.
 Appendices: You should keep any code generated and the synthesis report that shows
that your design compiled.
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