Advanced Digital Circuits ECET 146 Week 3 Professor Iskandar Hack ET 221B,

This Week’s Goals Designing a Combinational Circuit from Truth Table Introduction to the Programming Hardware Verifying a design in Hardware

Designing from a Truth Table Write a Sum of Product Equation straight from the truth table Draw the schematic from the Equation No Need to minimize equation (the software will find the minimum solution for the Altera architecture)

Writing the Equation Look at the Truth Table and everywhere the output is a one then you will generate a term in the Sum of Products The term generated will depend on the values of ABCD in the table for that term. If the value for an input is a zero then the term would contain an T-not If the value for an input is an one then the term would contain T

Table Equivalent Terms The Term for each of the entries is shown here ABCDTerm

Example 1 Write the Equation for the following table ABCDX

Comments regarding Example 1 There were 8 – ones in the table, thus there would be 8 terms in the equation Each one will create exactly one term, that can be easily written by looking at the table and writing the term by looking at the values Example if you look at the third line of the table A = 0, B=0, C=1, and D=0 and the output is 1. That would generate the term

Solution to Example 1 ABCDX

Drawing Schematic Open Altera Quartus II Software File->New->Schematic File Insert Inputs and inverters to create inputs for AND gates Draw AND gates, selecting appropriate inputs for each OR the output of the eight AND gates Insert Output

Insert Inputs and Inverters Draw the following circuit using INPUT and Inverters and draw the wires out of each inverter as shown

Name Pins and Nets As in previous labs name the pins A-D Click on each wire from the inputs and name them A-D Click on each wire from the inputs and name them Anot- Dnot

Add AND4 Gates Insert 8 – AND4 gates (remember one AND gate per term)

Connect Inputs to AND Gates Connect the four inputs to the AND gates according to the equation. This is done by drawing a small wire from each input and naming it as before. Name them according to the equations from the previous slide

The AND gates Connected

Add OR8 and connect the Product Terms

Insert Output (and name it)

Completed Schematic

Save File Click this to Create project

Creating the Project -1 First two screens take default and hit next

Device Number Part Number (EP3C16F484C6N)

Creating the Project – II (Select Device) Cyclone II Family Need a specific device Hit OK when done EP2C20F484C7 is the chip on the board

Compiling the Project Hit the hot key on the top of the screen to start compiling your project.

The Compiler If you did everything right thus far you should see something like this:

Compiler Reports The compiler creates a number of reports, which at this point would mean nothing to you, but you may want to explore them. I/O pin info Boolean EQ

Comments regarding errors It is very possible that you’ll get errors on this drawing. If so look for two connections on a wire to one of the AND gate inputs. This is the most common error. This often happens on the last AND gate if the wires brought down end at the same point you draw the wire across. Just delete the wire and redraw it.

Assigning Pins - I Open the Pin Planner to Assign the pins

Assigning Pins II Look at the data sheet for the board and determine what your pin numbers need to be.

Assigning Pins III Use four of the switches for the inputs Use one of the LEDs for the output

Assigning the Pins IV

Tristate Unused Pins Device and Pin Options

Tristate Unused Pins II

Recompile after Assigning Pins and tristating unused pins

Check New Pin Assignments Open the resource files to look at the pin assignment after recompiling. Click to look at input pinsInput pin assignments Output pins

NOTE: The following slides were copied from Lecture two and the waveforms DO NOT match this example. They are included for instructional purposes only.

Drawing Waveforms for Simulation We now need to create a new file to hold our simulation input waveforms. This done by hitting new and selecting Other and vector waveform file (vwf)

Entering Nodes You will need to double click in the node area of the display – this will bring up the following dialog box Select Node Finder

Entering Nodes II (1) Start by selecting Pins: all (2) Then hit List (3) Move all pins to the right by hitting >> (4) Hit OK

Check if all nodes are selected Verify in the waveform editor that all nodes are shown Inputs Output

Change Grid and End Time Select Edit, Grid time, and change it to 50 nS Select Edit, End time and change it to 1.6 uS

Grouping Inputs Select all the inputs, right click, hit ‘Group’ and use inputs[3..0] for the name of the inputs, Hex as radix, and uncheck grey count

Display after Grouping + will expand group to show the individual pins - will hide individual pins

Using Count Function Select the Group, and then hit the count button on the left side of the screen. Take the defaults (start at 0, incr by 1, End value F)

Display after Count You should see the following after hitting OK

Save Simulation File Up to now you should have seen that the output is neither high or low. That is because it has not been simulated yet. In order to simulate you must first save the file as example1.vwf Leave checked

Simulate This is the easy part – Hit the simulate button on the top of the screen. Simulate

Verify Simulation You should have a value for the output for each input condition. Manually determine (using techniques from ECET 111) what the output should be for each condition and verify that the output matches that.

Simulation Display

Connect the Altera Board to the PC Check out an Altera Board from the Lab Tech office

Connect Board to PC I When checking out board also check out DC wall pack. Ensure that the wall pack is of the correct polarity (+ is the center, - is the outside) and is between 9 and 12 volts. Also get a Male -> Female DB25 cable to connect between the computer and the PC

Connect to PC II Notice the location of the connectors used, the other DB25 connector is used for experiments. DB25 Cable to PC DC Power connector

Open the Programming Module Select the Programmer Hot Button

Select Programming Hardware Once the programmer is opened – hit hardware setup Then select Add Hardware Selected USB Blaster

Select Programming Options Select Program/Configure and Verify

Program the Part Hit the start button You should see the progress bar move during programming

Verify the Design Switch the inputs thru the 16 possible combinations (0000 to 1111) to verify that the design matches the truth table

Summary This week we covered how to go from any truth table to a schematic very quickly in the Altera software We also went thru the procedure to specify a device, lock our input/output pins to particular pins and program the device We also we over how to verify a combinational logic design using the Altera hardware

Lab Two Design a circuit and verify it using the techniques covered in this week’s lecture that will have the following truth table. Turn in your printouts from the schematic editor and simulator. Have myself or the TA initial the schematic to verify that your circuit worked ABCDX