CSE370 Assignment 7

Distributed: 15 November 2000
Due: 22 November 2000

Reading:

  1. Katz, Chapter 8 (pp. 383-395).
  2. Katz, Chapter 8 (pp. 402-432).
  3. Katz, Chapter 10 (pp. 496-508).

Exercises:

  1. Create a counter that counts in Gray code (000, 001, 011, 010, 110, 111, 101, 100, 000, ... ). It should have a reset signal that sets it to 110 and an enable input that stops the counter (holds the current value) when low. Do this in Verilog using a "case" statement.
    (a) Follow good design practices and layout a transition table and/or state diagram before doing the Verilog implementation. Turn in your state diagram.
    (a) For your simulation, start with the counter disabled. Reset it (leaving it disabled; it should reset even while disabled) for two cycles, then lower reset but leave it disabled for two cycles. Enable it and let it run for ten (10) cycles. Reset it (but leave it enabled) for two cycles, then lower reset for two more cycles. Turn in simulation waveforms.
    (b) Synthesize logic for your counter and map it to the 16R6 PAL of Fig 10.18 on page 513 (pal10-18.pdf or pal10-18.gif).
  2. Katz exercise 8.18.
  3. Implement a state machine which "stuffs" and "frames" a serial data stream for transmission.  Stuffing is what we do to a data stream when we do not want a particular pattern of bits to ever occur in the stream.  For example, we do not want to see three or more ones in a row, thus, we will stuff an extra zero after every two consecutive ones (e.g., 0011011100100 would become 001100110100100). Framing is what we do to a data stream so that it has an easy to distinguish start and end.  This is usually done using a pattern that is prevented from occuring in the data stream itself, in our example, this is going to be "1110".

    Your state machine is to take a raw unstuffed data stream as input (U) and produce a stuffed AND framed data stream (S) as output.  The state machine will have two other inputs as well: reset (R)and enable (E); it will also have another output: advance (A).  Reset simply resets the machine to a known starting state.  Enable simply tells the machine when the data stream (on the "U" input) that has to be stuffed and framed starts and ends. When "E" is false, the output of your machine should be a 0 on "S".  When "E" first goes high, your machine should first output "1110" on S and making sure that A is low so that whoever is feeding it the data stream does NOT advance to the next bit. When E goes low, your machine should output "1110" again on "S".  These two "1110" sequences will serve as start and end markers for your data stream.  You can assume that "E" will always be high for more than 8 cycles and thus always provide some input stream for you machine to operate on.  "A" is asserted by the machine when it is ready to process the next bit of the data stream on the input "U".  Note that when the machine is stuffing the extra 0s, it will want to hold up the input for a cycle so that it can get the extra 0 out.  "A" can be set to low for a clock cycle to signal to the input generator to hold up the next value.
    (a) Draw a Moore machine state diagram for this FSM.
    (b) Create a Verilog module that implements your FSM and turn in your simulation for the example above (use $display statements that include good explanatory text as comments). Be sure to identify important events on your printout (e.g., when a zero is stuffed into the output stream).

    4. (c) Synthesize logic for your FSM and map it to the 16R6 PAL of Fig 10.18 on page 513 (pal10-18.pdf or pal10-18.gif).

Notes:

Learn to use $display statements to show what's going on inside a Verilog module. They can be very useful for debugging and showing us that your design works.  Display statements are documented in the LVM (Verilog) manual on page 56. You put them at the bottom of an always block. In a Verilog module, you can display individual bits, using the %b specifier, or vectors using the %h specifier.

You can use screen shots to show that your simulation is working including showing us the contents of LVM windows. Use Alt-PrintScreen to take a snapshot of the current window, or Ctl-PrintScreen to grab the entire screen. Now your image is on the clipboard and you can import into your favorite editor. Make sure to always clearly label everything with which submodule and which test case it represents.

Of course, you should turn in printouts of all of your circuits, subcircuits, and verilog models. Remember that printers can print duplex (2-sided) so save a tree if possible.

Finally, remember to create and save library parts for everything you build in this assignment. It is likely that you will be asked to use some of these parts as components of another design in the next assignment.

Rationale:

Comments to: cse370-webmaster@cs.washington.edu (Last Update: )