Lab Assignments

Lab sections meet in Room C207 Engineering. Labs start on Monday August 28th, 2017.

Policies:

• Lab attendance: Mandatory. In rare situations when you cannot attend the your scheduled  lab session due to circumstances beyond your control, you must obtain clearance in advance from your lab instructor. In such a case you must attend another lab section during that same week. Failing that, you will be marked absent for the project and will receive a zero score. Remember that all projects must be completed with a passing grade in order to pass the course.
• Conduct in the lab: Students are expected to maintain a professional working atmosphere in the lab, which includes not disturbing other students or groups, not talking loud, and following additional instructions provided by the Teaching Assistants. Use of cellphones (for voice or texting) is not allowed. No food or drinks allowed in C207.
• Prelab: Prelabs must be submitted at the beginning of corresponding lab sessions. It will be signed by the lab instructor. This signed prelab must be included in your lab reports every week.
• Demonstration of hardware circuits & Submitting Project reports: You may show the hardware demo anytime before the start date of the next project for your lab section (during GTA's office hours or during other lab sections).  At the time of the demo, you must present the printout of your circuit diagram built using Quartus software. Your lab instructor will sign this printout once she/he has seen your hardware circuit working correctly. The signed printout should then be incorporated into your project report. A hard copy of the lab report must be submitted at the time of a successful demonstration. Demonstrating your hardware circuit during the next lab meeting is permitted, but make sure that it works flawlessly. You will not be given extra time to debug your circuit at that time. No excuses will be entertained in this regard.
• Policy on collaboration with other students: Design alone, build alone, write alone, and submit individually prepared reports and circuits. It's okay to talk, give advice, receive advice, but do your own work.
• Grading policy: The grading differs from one project to the other.  An example would be: hardware circuit: 30%, required technical items in the report: 40%, memo text: 20%, instructor discretion: 10%.  A neatness bonus of 5% may be assigned.
• Penalties: Penalties will be assessed for each lab for hand written report (except where specifically allowed): -5%, not stapling the report together: -5%, missing prelab: -5%, lateness per day: -10%, and not following Banana memo format: -10%.

Assignments & Instructions:

• It is essential to read the assignment before the lab and be ready to begin when you come to the lab.
• Report is due in a week.
   

Week	Project Description
Aug 21 - 25	Create an Engineering Network Account
Aug 28 - Sept 1	Lab 1: Introduction to DE2 and Quartus II (Lab0.zip )
Sept 5 - Sept 11	Lab 2: Schematic Entry, Timing Diagrams and Functional Simulation using Quartus II
Sept 12 - Sept 18	Lab 3: Design, Simulation and Verification of Combinational Circuits
Sept 19 - Sept 25	Lab 4: Two's Complement Adder Subtractor Design
Sept 26 - Oct 2	Lab 5: The Array Multiplier
Oct 3 - Oct 9	Lab 6: The Seven Segment Display
Oct 10 - Oct 16	Lab 7: The Binary to Seven-Segment Decoder
Oct 17 - Oct 23	Lab 8: An Accumulator-based Tally Unit
Oct 24 - Oct 27	This is a make-up week.  Any late labs have to be completed and reports must be submitted during this week. There will not be another opportunity to complete labs 1-7 after this.  TAs will not accept any demos or reports for Labs 1-7 after this week. Any incomplete lab will automatically result in an "F" for the course as stated in the outline. Lab 9 will be conducted from Monday, Oct 30.
Oct 30 - Nov 3	Lab 9: Shift Register and Register Bank
Nov 6 - Nov 10	Lab 10: Design of Counters
Nov 13 - Nov 17	Lab 11: An Encryption Unit for Serial Communication
Nov 27 - Dec 1	Lab 12: Nanoprocessor

• The lab assignments use Altera DE2 boards and Quartus II software, available in C207 Engr.

Downloads:

• Quartus II software is available for download and installation on your computer (See Quartus II Web Edition Software).