The lab assignments are meant to bring you up to speed quickly on the tools and platforms you will most likely be using for your projects. There are four labs, and you must complete them all by the end of the 4th week (April 25). However, you can do them as quickly as you like, and it would be a good idea to get them out of the way. If you decide to use the Virtex 1000 prototyping board instead of the XSV300 board, we can redefine the labs so that you can do this. For example, we can replace the codec by another device like a stepper motor.