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ASIC 120: Digital Systems and Standard- Cell ASIC Design Tutorial 1: Introduction to Digital Circuits October 11, 2005
ASIC 120: Digital Systems and Standard-Cell ASIC Design
Tutorial 1: Introduction to Digital Circuits
October 11, 2005
Outline
• Digital Systems• Combinational Logic
– NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NAND, etc.– mux, half-adder, full-adder
• Sequential Logic– flip-flop/register, shift register, counter– state machines
Digital Systems
• Analog vs. Digital– continuously varying vs. discrete– imprecise vs. precise– 0..1 vs. 0 or 1
• Digital systems excel at…– repetitive calculations– large amounts of data– reproducible results
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
FreescalePowerPC
microprocessor(PPC)
MPC850 family
RAMXilinx
Spartan-IIXC2S30FPGA
AlteraPLD
Ethernet Connector
Combinational and Sequential Logic
• We can break a digital system into two types of logic
• Combinational– computation happens
in a linear fashion• Sequential
– computation involves a feedback loop (memory)
In Out
CombinationalInput Output
In Out
CombinationalInput Output
Feedback
Combinational Logic: NOT
A X0 1
1 0
Input Output
Truth Table
Combinational Logic: AND
A B X0 0 00 1 01 0 0
1 1 1
Combinational Logic: OR
A B X0 0 00 1 11 0 1
1 1 1
Combinational Logic: XOR
A B X0 0 00 1 11 0 1
1 1 0
Combinational Logic: NAND
A B X0 0 10 1 11 0 1
1 1 0
Combinational Logic: NOR, XNOR
A B X0 0 10 1 01 0 01 1 0
A B X0 0 10 1 01 0 01 1 1
Building Combinational CircuitsA B C X
0 0 0 00 1 0 01 0 0 1
1 1 0 10 0 1 00 1 1 11 0 1 01 1 1 1
Combinational Logic: MUX(multiplexer)
A B C X0 0 0 00 1 0 01 0 0 1
1 1 0 10 0 1 00 1 1 11 0 1 01 1 1 1
Half AdderA B S C
0 0 0 00 1 1 01 0 1 0
1 1 0 1
Full Adder
Full Adder
What I’ve Skipped
• Gates with more than two inputs• Boolean algebra• Karnaugh maps• Quine-McCluskey method• Binary arithmetic, base conversions• Practical digital circuits have more than 0s
and 1s• Transmission gates, tri-state buffers
Sequential Logic
In Out
CombinationalInput Output
In Out
CombinationalInput Output
Feedback
Basic Feedback Element: SR latch
S R Q Qnext
0 0 0 00 0 1 10 1 0 0
0 1 1 01 0 0 11 0 1 11 1 0 N/A1 1 1 N/A
D Flip-Flop or RegisterD Clk Q Qnext
0 0 0 00 0 1 11 0 0 0
1 0 1 10 01 0 00 01 1 01 01 0 11 01 1 1
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
• Synchronous– circuit operation governed by a clock– currently more popular and practical
• Asynchronous– circuit operation independent of a clock– potentially faster than synchronous– lower power consumption– difficult to design
Sequential Constructs
• Shift register• Counter• State Machines
State Machines
• Useful abstract constructs for more complex sequential logic
What I’ve Skipped
• Other flip-flops (RS, T, JK)• Other interesting sequential circuits (barrel
shifters, etc.)
Hardware Description Languages (HDLs)
• HDL describes in text a digital circuit• Examples
– VHDL (we will look at this next time)– Verilog– AHDL– JHDL
Hardware Description Languages (HDLs)
• schematics are useful for…– drawing high level diagrams– manually working out simple pieces of logic
• HDLs are useful for…– describing complex digital systems
• HDLs are not...– software programming languages (C, Java,
assembly, etc.)
Summary
• Digital Systems• Combinational Logic
– NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NAND, etc.– mux, half-adder, full-adder
• Sequential Logic– flip-flop/register, shift register, counter– state machines
UW ASIC Design Team
• www.asic.uwaterloo.ca• reference material
– Bryce Leung’s tutorials (UW ASIC website)– Michael Goldsmith’s tutorials (UW ASIC
website)– your course notes
• my contact info:Jeff Wentworth,
