Introductory Digital Logic Labs–A Graphical Approach to Logic Design

This lab book takes the Altera software Quartus II and their design principles to guide the student through the basic steps of logic design without bogging them down in Boolean Theorems or VHDL structure. By separating the classical theory and the software from learning VHDL language, the student’s tasks in mastering digital logic are lessened. By using the Quartus II graphical interface the student’s success in understanding more complicated design work becomes an intuitive extension of their learning seeing that the implementation of a logic design is a given with the Quartus II software and not a laborious exercise to construct and debug physical circuits constructed of antiquated parts. All labs have been tested and used in labs over the Fall of 2006 at Wentworth Institute of Technology.