A Mini Packet Switch Project as an Auxiliary Tool for Digital Circuit Design Learning

The main approach for teaching/learning digital techniques in a classroom usually requires that theory and practice be taught together. In digital circuits laboratories classes, students can design, simulate and implement basic logical circuits as counters, coders/decoders, adders, and other circuit modules. However, those circuits are studied in a non integrated form and students do not have a greater and final objective with all those circuits. This paper points toward a project that uses the basic circuit blocks already done by students to integrate them into a totally functional data communication equipment.