Course syllabus for Digital project laboratory

• describe the principles for a structured and hierarchical description of smaller digital systems [P, R].
• describe how programmable logic circuits work and how they are best utilized [L, R, P].
• handle electronic design automatic (EDA) tools to develop and verify programmable logic circuits [L, R, P].
• search for information in documentation/datasheets of commercial electronic components [R, B, W].
• implement a prototype digital system considering aspects of clocking, synchronization, and control (state machine) [R, P].
• determine power supply requirements for digital circuits in environments with multiple voltages [R, P].
• develop a prototype digital system, from specification, via implementation and verification, to testing and evaluation [W,B.P]

• Construction - with limited resources 
• Troubleshooting with a Logic Analyzer 
• Timing 
• Using FPGA/CPLD circuits 
• Reading technical documentation
• Report writing with focus on technical documentation

The course begins with some lecture and exercises that allows students to become familiar with CAD/EDA tools. Subsequently, the students themselves proceed with the construction work under supervision. The project work is performed in groups of three or four students. Each group selects a task of its own or follows a proposal from a catalog of projects. Components, instruments and equipment will be available for students in accessible premises for a period of six weeks. Construction work is presented in a written report. Students have a meeting each week with a supervisor. The course concludes with a seminar with mandatory attendance, where projects are presented.

Examination is carried out continuously during the course with laboratory exercises [L], weekly meetings [W], examination of log books [O], assessment of the final product [P] and report [R] and the oral presentation [M]. The grade is set based on your project group that has chosen your basic grade, here it is based on how well the project has done. The individual grade is set based on the students' performance in the group, the oral presentation, logbook entries and individual grant report. All the above elements must be approved for final grades on courses. Detailed information can be found in the course PM.