General:

• The in-lab experiments are done in groups of two students. Each group hands in one Lab Report. However, each students has to do the pre-labs separately and has to keep a separate lab notebook. Groups cannot change during the semester.
• Each student has to contribute equally to each lab, in terms of the preparation, doing the in-lab experiments and writing the reports. In the reports you need to indicate what section each of you wrote and contributed to. Putting your name on a report without contributing to the lab experiments on which the report is based, or writing a report without doing the experiment,  is considered cheating and a serious violation of the code of Academic Integrity.  Both partners have to contribute substantially to all aspects of the lab (including preparation, design, implementation and report writing). In case one partner does not give its fair share, you need to inform the lab instructors and indicate this in your lab report.
• The laboratory assignments are done using the Xilinx Foundation Software. The software is available both in the ESE Frederick Ketterer lab (204Moore). In some cases, you may have the student version on your home computer. The lab assignments can be done at home or at any of the PCs. However, it is strongly recommended that you come to the EE Lab during the lab sessions so you can:
1. Ask the instructor or TA questions about the lab or the software.
2. Have your lab notebook signed by the TA
3. Give a demo of the lab implementation on the FPGA demoboard (this is required in order to get a grade for the lab experiment)..
• The in-lab assignment can be done any time during the week. However, the report is due on the date stated in the lab assignment and is usually at the beginning of the of the next lab session.
• The ESE F. Ketterer Undergraduate Lab is also open in the morning (you need the key combination).
• Unless otherwise specified you will be using the Digilab Protoboard to build your circuits.

Policy for giving a lab Demo:

Several labs will require you to give demos to the lab TAs who will verify that your circuit works properly. The demo is due at the end of the lab section.  However, if you are not able to give the demo during the lab section, you can do it during the FIRST 30 min. of the next lab. However, no demos will be accepted after the first 30 minutes. If needed you can work on the lab outside the regular lab schedule to further debug the circuit so that you will be ready to give the demo when the next lab starts.

Printing of schematics, timing diagrams (simulations), code.
 

Our goal is to go as much paperless as possible. Instead of making printouts of the schematics, ABEL code, and timing diagrams, you will use the Screen Capture feature to save the schematics, code and timing diagrams electronically. We have installed a screen capture program (Hypersnap DX) on each PC in the lab which will allow you to capture an active window, a screen or a user defined region a in GIF, JPEG or Bitmap format. Save this file to your disk and insert it later into your report. When everything is assembled in a final report, you hand in a hard copy of the report. This implies that no printouts of schematics, code or timing diagrams are not allowed in the lab.
To find out how to use the screen capture utility click on Hypersnap DX. I would suggest to save the picture in GIF format.

Saving your lab projects:
 

When finished with your project you need to save your work to your Eniac account. The preferred method is to first archive your project and save the project as a .zip file. This can be done by going to the Project Manager: FILE -> ARCHIVE. Then, FTP the archived project to your Eniac account.  Do not expect to find your project on the PC when you come back! To ftp your project from the PCs in the EE lab, click on the WS_FTP icon on the desktop. Open your eniac account. You may want to create a directory "ESE201" on Eniac into which you can FTP your project.  If you are working on the PCs in the Town building, you can mount your eniac account on the PCs and move the project to your account.

In case you do not archive your project you need to transfer both the .pdf file and the project folder (e.g. Myfa.pdf AND Myfa folder)!

For late-lab and grading policies see the Blackboard website for ESE201