Recent trends in development and utilization of online laboratories have resulted into standard platforms that are not lab-specific, which can be leveraged to develop laboratories in diverse fields. One such platform is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) interactive iLab Shared Architecture. This paper presents work undertaken at Makerere University to develop a synchronous sequential logic iLab based on this architecture. The research was carried out by a Graduate researcher, under joint supervision in the confines of the iLab Africa Graduate Fellowship Programme. The research builds on previous work undertaken by the same researcher, in which a combinational digital logic iLab was developed. The sequential logic iLab utilizes the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS II+) hardware, with its interactive user interface developed using the Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW). The generic platform supports experiments in the fields of counters, shift registers, frequency dividers and digital clocks, with appropriate electronic component selection and configuration. The design methodologies and implementation strategies for each experiment category are presented as well as the respective test runs. The laboratory has been used to support courses in the curricula of the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Computer, Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering Programmes at Makerere University.
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机译:在线实验室的开发和利用的最新趋势已导致非实验室特定的标准平台,可以利用该平台开发不同领域的实验室。麻省理工学院(MIT)交互式iLab共享体系结构就是这样的平台。本文介绍了麦克雷雷大学在基于此架构开发同步时序逻辑iLab方面所做的工作。该研究是由一名研究生研究员在iLab非洲研究生奖学金计划的共同监督下进行的。该研究建立在同一位研究人员以前的工作基础上,其中开发了组合数字逻辑iLab。顺序逻辑iLab利用National Instruments教育实验室虚拟仪器套件(NI ELVIS II +)硬件,其交互式用户界面是使用实验室虚拟仪器工程工作台(LabVIEW)开发的。通用平台通过适当的电子元件选择和配置,支持计数器,移位寄存器,分频器和数字时钟领域的实验。介绍了每个实验类别的设计方法和实施策略,以及各自的测试运行。该实验室已被用来支持麦克雷雷大学计算机,电气和电信工程专业理学学士课程的课程。
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