EEL 3705L: Digital Logic Laboratory

Curriculum Designation: Required for electrical engineering and computer engineering majors.

Course Description: Laboratory in support of EEL 3705.

Prerequisites: COP 3014 (FSU) or COP 2221 (FAMU)

Corequisites: EEL 3705

Course Objectives:

  1. Maintain a lab notebook and describe the results in a predefined format.
  2. Derive digital circuits from Boolean equations and implement the design on a prototype or development board.
  3. Distinguish between a functional simulation and a timing delay simulation
  4. Derive, design, implement and simulate combinatorial logic circuits using computer aided design (CAD) software.
  5. Design and simulate arithmetic and combinational logic elements from predefined library elements.
  6. Design, simulate, and implement sequential circuits and/or finite state machines on a prototype or development board.
  7. Design, implement, and simulate memory and functional units used in microprocessors.
  8. Derive, design, implement and simulate a larger design project.

Topics Covered:

  1. Basic digital logic gates
  2. Boolean algebra and logic gates
  3. Introduction to CAD software for logic design
  4. Combinatorial logic design laboratories
  5. Sequential circuit/finite state machine design laboratories
  6. Design Project

Class Schedule: One 165 minute lab per week (1 credit hour).

Contribution to Professional Component: Engineering topics: 1 credit hour

Science/Design (%): 10% / 90%

Relationship to ABET Program Outcomes: B, C, E, G and K

Prepared by: Bruce A. Harvey