UPC EETAC Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Systems and in Network Engineering EEL

PLA6

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PLA7: Designing large counters, registers, dedicated processors

PLA9

Lab7
NOTE: This post lab assignment must be solved only after having completed successfully lab session Lab7 because you will copy and adapt ideas and materials from it.

This group submission at Atenea includes the report in a PDF file, the zipped project, a 10 min. max video presentation and also your self-assessment.

NOTE: ===> To prepare your video presentation, consider the assessement and feedback you got from PLA3

Specifications

Continue your PLA6 design phase #1 solving project sections 3 - 4 - 5.

Solve your PLA6  design phase #2.

 

Example of individual/group assignments
  Project number Circuit entity FSM encoding Target chip
Est./group 1 D2.5 LED lamp dimmer one-hot Cyclone IV
Est./group 2 D2.6 7-segment sequencer binary radix-2 MAX II
Est./group 3 D2.23 Earbuds control buttons Gray MAX II
Est./group 4 D2.5 LED lamp dimmer binary radix-2 Cyclone IV
Est./group 5 ... ... ... ...

NOTE: You can choose whether to solve PLA7 individually or in cooperative group. Discuss it with your instructor.

Follow this rubric for writing reports.

Invest in this project the corresponding study time, no more. This PLA7 is a kind of introduction to capstone projects for completing our chapters on VHDL design. It is not that important to complete all the project design phases than paying careful attention on specifications, finding similar commercial products, planning design phases, imagining the correct control signals and output devices, selecting and interconnecting components and propose feasible architectures. At this point you already have got enough experience to develop and test these applications if they are well planned. Therefore, focus your group discussion in producing a quality planning based on CSD standard components and procedures. 

Repeat this project flowchart for the several design phases:

Project idea

Time is a valuable finite resource. Learn to manage and maximise your study time: if after having studied in detail our materials, you do not find a component of your interest, ask questions on how to locate or adapt it from digsys lectures and projects and labs tutorials.

 

P_Ch2 marking grid for pprojects PLA6 and PLA7

P_Ch2 => 6% of your final grade => PLA6 (50%) + PLA7 (report + video, 50%)

Work assessments to be carried out in laboratory sessions
  PLA6
    5p  

Note Work in progress includes completing tutorials, sample reports, sketches, diagrams, discussions, Q & A, presentations, live demonstrations, results, measurements, etc.

 

PLA7 handwritten report and video presentation:
Video Report  
  2p 3p    

Notes on lab assessment: student grades are not simply reflecting report or video quality, but implicitly, they include laboratory participation, questions and answers, problem solving skills, attendance and punctuality, active attitude and group work.

 

Reflect and give us your group feedback on what you learned in chapter 2 (from P5 to P8). Add a short paragraph in the final section of your PLA7 discussing aspects that you consider positive and negative.