CSE370 Laboratory Assignment 2

Constructing Simple Logic Circuits

Distributed: 17 January 2004
Due: 23 January 2004

Objectives

Tasks

1. Complete the entire introductory tutorial to the Aldec ActiveHDL 6.1 tool.  You'll be asked to enter a schematic for the full adder circuit in Chapter 2 of the text.  Make sure to complete the entire tutorial.  It is quite long but very informative and thorough.
   
   
2. Create a schematic drawing for the Fibonacci number circuit of exercise 2.20. Here is the solution:
   CLD-II, Chapter 2, problem 2.20a

   2.20.a     Write f(A,B,C,D)=∑m(1,2,3,5,8,13) in canonical minterm form
   
   

   A’B’C’D+A’B’CD’+A’B’CD+A’BC’D+AB’C’D’+ABC’D

   
   Make sure to minimize it first using K-maps.  You should achieve a sum-of-products expression with four terms (two with four literals and two with three literals).
   
   
3. Simulate your circuit for task 2 using the same technique as in the tutorial.  Create stimulators for the inputs A, B, C, and D with D changing every 10 time units, C every 20, B every 40, and A every 80.  Make sure to run your simulation long enough so that the inputs take on all possible combinations.  Your simulation results should clearly show that the output of the function is only true when the inputs correspond to a Fibonacci number (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13). 
   

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