E2LP Extension Board for Teaching Basic Digital Electronics

Abstract

At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek on the course Digital Electronics students are learning the basics of digital electronics and VHDL with unified embedded engineering learning platform (E2LP). E2LP is designed for teaching embedded computer systems courses and system design courses, and therefore lacks basic digital I/O devices such as 16 switches, RGB LEDs, etc. This paper presents E2LP extension board developed with the aim of adding simple I/O devices to the existing E2LP system. The extension board is successfully tested, and several student examples are given.