-First, I plugged in the NEXYS board into my computer and turned it on. I then used the code given to us within the Lab 1 word file from Professor Lu and copied and pasted it into Vivado. After this, I tested different combinations with switches and how it affects the digital output. Different bits were turned on and off based on the switches pulled and therefore resulted in numerical values anywhere from 0 to hex FFFF. The four rightmost switches pulled in different combinations controlled the bit output.

-The next four switches (switches 5 -> 8) controlled the location of which LED would illuminate. For instance, with no switches flipped (pictured here), the leftmost LED was illuminated; if we were to flip on both 5 and 6 at the same time, the second LED from the left will light up instead.

• In this lab, we were tasked with building a hex counter on the LED of the board that could be booted from memory in the event the board turned off. I followed the given procedure to create a new constraint file for the hex counter and run an implementation/synthesis. I then followed the given instructions for generating a bitstream and moving the blue MODE jumper to QSPI as opposed to JTAG. Completing all of the given steps resulted in the LED starting to count in hex.
• After this, I added in a memory configuration device and programmed it with the given file paths and instructions. After the programming and memory were configured, I then turned off the device, turned it back on and waited for the hex counter to begin again.