LabVIEW Design of Digital Integrated Circuits FPGA IC Implantation

A Simple Way to Build an IC Modern digital electronics uses an EDA software tools to design the block diagram of the circuit which is then downloaded into a programmable chip. The resulting chip becomes an integrated circuit which will work exactly as it is designed.

How Does An FPGA Work? A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device containing programmable logic blocks, and programmable interconnects. Logic blocks can be programmed to perform the function of basic logic gates such as AND, and XOR, or more complex combinational functions such as decoders or simple mathematical functions.

In most FPGAs, the logic blocks also include memory elements, which may be simple flip- flops or more complete blocks of memory. A hierarchy of programmable interconnects allows logic blocks to be interconnected as needed by the system designer, like a one- chip programmable breadboard. Logic blocks and interconnects can be programmed by the designer. After the designer download his designing patterns into the FPGA chip, one gets his own IC.

Mesh-based programmable network

Physical Layout of an FPGA Chip

LabVIEW design of an IC

Requirement of this Lab Build a 3-8 Decoder with LabVIEW Your design does need to be professional. Make sure your design is functional.

A 2-4 Decoder