Calendar

The calendar provides the schedule of lectures, assignments, and handouts for the course. After the second quiz, the lectures and recitations are discontinued. The remainder of the sessions involve labs and project presentations by students in the course.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.111 - Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory

SCHEDULE FALL 2002

All lectures (not quizzes) have lecture notes in addition to the handouts listed below.

DAY #  LECTURE # HANDOUTS DUE LECTURE TOPICS
1 1 First Day Packet includes:
General Information
Syllabus
General Laboratory Information
Computer Information
Introduction to HP Logic
Analyzer
Beginner's Guide to WARP
PAL Programming
Problem Set 1
Lab 1
Safety Memo
Kit Sign-out Form
Background Information
and Schedule Form
6.111 Sign-up Sheet Introduction, Basic Boolean
2 2 Gates, Symbols, and Busses 
Kmap
Example, Kmaps
3 3 Gates, Flip Flops, Building Blocks,
Counters
4 4 Negative True and VHDL
PS 1 Solutions, PS 2
PS 1 Counters, Finite State
Machines, PALS
5 5 VHDL Intro; Entities, Galaxy demo
6 6 Lab 1 VHDL Statements
7 7 Lab 2 (CPLD and 6264 data sheets), PS 3, PS 2 Solutions PS 2 VHDL FSM Example,Timing, Lab 2
assignment
8 8 Design Procedure,VHDL Packages,
Memories
9 9 Report Guide, Phase II form Checklist, Writing
Style guide
Writing Phase II, Quiz 1 Review
10 Q1 QUIZ 1 QUIZ 1 (56-154, -169, -191)
11 10 PS 3 Solutions
PS 4
PS 3 VHDL Identifiers, Handshaking,
Package examples
12 11 PS 5, FPGA Module Lab 2
Design Check-off
VHDL Statements, ALU example
13 12 PS 4 Solutions PS 4 Binary Arithmetic, Control Example (PI controller)
14 13 Lab 3 Lab 2
Check-off
Implementation using multiple FSM's,
FLEX10K parts
15 14 Lab 3 Assignment (demo)
16 15 PS 5 solutions L2 Report, PS 5 due in the lab A/D, D/A, Op Amps (demo)
17 16 Project Information Project Kickoff
18 17 Project Abstracts
Lab 3 Design
Video 1
19 18 MC6847 data sheet Video 2, Transmission Lines (demo)
20 19 How to Make Your Project Work Encoders, Motors, Quiz 2 Review
21 Q2 Quiz 2 Proposal Conferences
22 Lab 3 Check-off
23 Design Conferences
25 Lab 3 Report
26 Project Design Presentations
27 Project Design Presentations
28 Project Design Presentations
29 Project Design Presentations
30 Project Presentations
31 Video-taping the Project Demonstrations
32 Project Reports due