EE 421L Digital Electronics Lab
Fall 2013, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Student lab reports are found here.

 

Current grades are located here.

 

Project – design, layout, and simulate an 8–bit ALU that can perform: A AND B, A OR B, A + B (addition), and A – B (subtraction).

First half of the project (no layout), a jelib of your design and an html report detailing operation (including simulations), is due at the beginning of lab on Nov. 8. 

The top level ALU icon used for simulations should have the following inputs (all bus connections): A (8–bits), B (8–bits),  F (2 bits), and Z (8–bits).

Ensure that you have input vectors saved for simulations when I run IRSIM (make it easy for me to verify your design works).

Put your report (proj.htm) in a folder called /proj in your directory at CMOSedu

I will go over your designs with you, including running simulations, when we meet on Nov. 8.

Second half of the project, a verified layout and documention (in html), is due at the beginning of lab on Nov. 22.

Again, I will meet with you on Nov. 22 to go over your layout and, again, put your work in the /proj folder in your directory at CMOSedu

Finishing the projects by Nov. 22 will give us time to assemble chips for fabrication through MOSIS.

 

December 6 – Lab8 – Generating a test chip layout for submission to MOSIS for fabrication 

November 1 – Lab7 – Using buses and arrays in the design of word inverters, muxes, and high–speed adders  

October 11 – Lab6 – Design, layout, and simulation of CMOS NAND/NOR/XOR gates and a full–adder 

October 4 – Lab5 – Design, layout, and simulation of a CMOS inverter   

September 27 – Lab4 – IV characteristics of NMOS and PMOS devices in ON's C5 process  

September 20 – Lab3 – Layout of a 10–bit digital–to–analog converter (DAC)

September 6 – Lab2 – Design of a 10–bit digital–to–analog converter (DAC)  

August 30 – Lab1 – Laboratory introduction, generating/posting html lab reports, installing and using Electric 

  

Instructor: R. Jacob Baker

Lab Assistant: Stephen Wu
Time: Friday from 11:30 AM to 2:15 PM

Course dates: Friday, August 30 to Friday, December 6

Location: TBE B–350

Holidays: Friday, October 25 (Nevada Day Recess) and Friday, November 29 (Thanksgiving Recess)

Course content – Laboratory based analysis and design of digital and computer electronic systems.

Credits: 1

Corequisite: EE 421; Prerequisite: EE 320L

 

Grading
30% Quizzes
40% Lab Reports

30% Project
 

Policies 

  • Unlike the lectures, laptops can be used during the lab. Please bring your laptop with you to lab!
  • If a quiz is open book then only the course textbook can be used (no ebooks, Kindle, Nook, etc., older/international editions, or photocopies).
  • No late work accepted. Regularly being tardy for labs, leaving in the middle of labs, or leaving early is unacceptable without consent of the instructor.
  • Cheating or plagiarism will result in an automatic F grade in the lab
  • Questions for the instructor (only) should be asked in person (not via email).
  

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