The rapid advancement of electronics technology means that undergraduate teaching laboratories should be frequently reviewed. This philosophy led to the new third-year laboratory structure described in this paper. This was implemented in October 1981 as an integral part of a four-year course and, in a radical departure from standard practice, involves open-ended experiments including both software and hardware design.
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