1995 Catalog Data: ELE 336. DIGITAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY I. Corequisite: 335. (3 lab hours). (1).

Textbook: ELE 336 Laboratory Manual (3rd Edition) by Allen Glisson, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, 1990.

Reference: Digital Design Fundamentals by K.J. Breeding, Prentice Hall, 1989

Coordinator: Drs. Mark Tew, Associate Professor, and Allen Glisson, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Goals: This laboratory supplements ELE 335, Principles of Digital Systems, providing the student with "hands-on" experience with combinational logic and synchronous sequential circuits. ELE 336 teaches the use of different logic "conventions" for utilizing a single electrical device to perform four different logic operations. The student is required to "patch together" circuits in order to realize combinational logic functions that include AND, OR, NAND, NOR, and NOT operations. Included is use of a circuit and the logic conventions in order to obtain equivalent representations of a given function (Example: De Morgan's Theorem). Several laboratories deal with registers and controlled information transfers using clocked and unclocked flip-flops. To insure learning effectiveness, each student performs experiments individually on a logic trainer. Students are also introduced to a commerical digital logic simulation program that is available for their use throughout the semester. In addition, one laboratory period is devoted to the study of a teaching computer simulator that runs on a personal computer with emphasis on machine language programming and internal information transfer.

Corequisite: 1. Basic Digital Systems (ELE 335)

Topics: 1. Logic conventions and indicators (1 class)

2. Logic gates and logic operations (1 class)

3. Min-term representations and implementation of simple logic functions (1 class)

4. Max-term representations, multiple output networks, and fan-in capability (1 class)

5. Code translation (1 class)

6. Function minimization (1 class)

7. Construction of flip-flops (1 class)

8. Registers (1 class)

9. Controlled circuits, memory addressing (1 class)

Computer Usage: 1. One experiment on machine and assembly language programming using a RISC computer simulator, the Ole Miss teaching computer (OMTC), on a PC (1 class)

Major Equipment: 1. Digiac 4010 Logic Trainer

2. IBM PC Compatible Personal Computer

Estimated ABET Category Content: Engineering Science: 1 credit or 100%

Prepared by: Drs. Allen Glisson, Mark Tew