Syllabus

Lab instructor:  Beifang Yi
Lab sections: section 1 (6--9pm/M), section 2 (2--5pm/W), section 3 (6--9pm/W)
Office hours: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (Wednesday and Thursday)
                        SEM 340
Other time: by email or stop by my office (SEM 203)
Email: b_yi@cs.unr.edu (b_yi@cs.unr.edu)

Objective

      The objective of this lab is to give students hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting basic digital circuits. This hands-on experience reinforces the abstract concepts presented in the class lectures and textbook.

Rules

• Food and drink are not allowed in the lab.
• Students are responsible for cleaning their station before leaving the lab.
• Students can access the lab at any time except during other scheduled lab sections.
• Students must copy their resutls to their disks or recordable CDs. Any files they saved in the computer hard disk will be automatically deleted when the computer is shut down.
  
• Students can work in groups of two (at most three), but will turn in  individual  lab reports.
• Each student must have a prototyping breadboard and jumper wire kit for building digital circuits, implement the circuits on his/her own breadboard and show his/her results to the lab instructor. (The JE-24 prototyping breadboard and JE-10 jumper wire kit are available at the University Bookstore).
  

Lab reports

Lab reports should have the following format:

• Course title, section number, lab number , name, date (on a cover page or the upper part of the first page) (5 points).
  
• Introduction - (5 points).
• Objective - (5 points).
• Procedure/Results - (80 points).
• Conclusion: In the Conclusion the student must explain the Results in light of the Procedure, i.e., if the results are incorrect, explain why, if possible - (5 points).
• ALL LAB REPORTS MUST BE TYPEWRITTEN. NO PRINTING, HAND-DRAWING, ETC.

Grading Policy

• Lab reports are due one week after the lab.
• Lab reports can be turned in at the end of the current lab session.
• Late lab reports will NOT be accepted, except in the case of an extreme emergency which prevents the lab reports from being turned in on time.
• Reports have a maximum possible grade of 100 points.
• Plagiarism will not be tolerated and students who have identical lab reports or have not implemented circirts on their own individual breadboards will receive zero points for that lab.

Legal Notices

If you have a disability for which you will need accommodations, please contact me, or Mary Zabel at the Disability Resource Center (Thompson Student Services, Rm 107) as soon as possible in order to arrange for the appropriate accommodations.

Finally, I welcome you to CPE 201/EE 236 Lab and I wish you the best success in here. If you have any questions regarding the above policies or the labs, feel free to contact me (you can also come to my research lab room, SEM 203).