EE3120: Digital Systems Laboratory

Instructor
• Andrew Cilia
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Email: acilia@utdallas.edu
URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/~acilia
Room: ECSN 3.516

Teaching Assistants

EE3120.001 Krishnan Venkat, vsk041000@utdallas.edu

EE3120.002 Sanjay Pratap Singh, sanjay.singh@student.utdallas.edu

EE3120.501 Sanjay Pratap Singh, sanjay.singh@student.utdallas.edu

EE3120.502 Duddupudi Rajesh, rajeshd@student.utdallas.edu

Course Objective
EE3120 is a companion laboratory to EE 3320 (Digital Circuits). It involves design,
assembly and test of combinational and sequential logic circuits. Logic designs will be
done using computer-aided design (CAD) tools and implemented using Field-
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). In this laboratory digital circuits will be designed
and implemented using the Foundation Series Tools and FPGAs from Xilinx, Inc.

Laboratory assignments will be posted on WebCT. Please print and bring to the lab a
copy of the assignment each week.

Prerequisite: EE 2310 - Computer Organization.

Corequisite: EE 3320 - Digital Circuits.
 Grading Policy
Final grade in this course will be based on five laboratory assignments. All labs have an
equal weight in the final grade. Grading will be based on pre-lab work, laboratory reports
and in-lab. performance (i.e., completing lab, answering laboratory related questions,
etc.). TAs and/or the instructor will ask pertinent questions to individual members of a
team at random.

Labs will be graded as per the following grading policy:

Pre-Lab Work 20.00%

In-Lab Performance 30.00%

Laboratory Report 50.00%

In-lab. performance (i.e., completing lab, answering laboratory related questions, etc.)
will be graded with the following procedure. TAs will ask pertinent questions to
individual members of a team at random during each lab. Each student will receive up to
10 points for each lab session.

Each lab will equally contribute to the final grade.

Laboratory Report
• In this laboratory you will work in teams of two. However, the lab. reports will be
written individually.

• Please do not copy lab. reports! You will only cheat yourself, if you do. Please
read the UT Dallas policy on scholastic dishonesty at:

http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html

• Please use the following format for your lab. reports:

• Cover: Includes course number, topic of the assignment, names of team

members and your section.

• Abstract: Brief introduction to the assignment and a summary of results.

• For the rest of the report please follow the instructions given in
individual laboratory assignments.
 Reports Due Dates
Pre-lab reports are due by the end of the first corresponding lab. Reports are due one
week after completion of the corresponding lab. A late pre-lab or lab report will receive a
30% penalty. Reports that are turned in one week after the deadline will not be accepted
and will not count toward the final grade.