• CLASS
• GRADING
• HOMEWORKS
• PROJECTS
• REVIEW OF DIGITAL LOGIC

Marek Perkowski
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Portland State University

• Administration
• About Review
• RASSP Program
• Why VHDL?
• Flip-Flops (see ECE 271 class slides)
• Shift Registers
• Generalized Register
• Pipelined Sorter

• Instructor: Prof. Marek A. Perkowski
• Course Information
– My home page http://ee.pdx.edu/~mperkows
– Computer Engineering web site
• http://ece.pdx.edu

• Office
– FAB room 160-05
• Office Hours
– Fridays 6 pm - 10 pm - meetings in FAB, room 150
– Other Times by Appointment
• Office Phone
– (503)725-5411 (Answering Machine)

• Email
– mperkows@ee.pdx.edu
• Students with Disabilities
– If you need special assistance, please inform me soon so that we can work something out.
• There is a milestone chart available on the class web site.

• HW
35%
– Assignments are on the web, may be changed. If changed, I will inform you. Usually these are miniprojects. You may be asked to present them in class.
• Final Project
– You will present it in class
65%
• No exams

• Attendance at Lecture
– Not graded, but recommended.
– Attendance at Friday meetings not graded, come if you can.
• Makeup Exams
– Makeup homeworks or exams are not given .
– Project should be completed before end of the class

• Homeworks Require Use of VHDL
• Always you have to simulate the circuit
• You may be asked to synthesize it also.
• Mentor Graphics Tools
– contact support (cat) people
– use any lab that is available. Work at home.
– use addpkg
– We use Modelsim for simulation and LeonardoSpectrum for synthesis. Synthesis is mandatory for the project.

• My slides are based on at least 5 books, slides from
Internet and my industrial experience, on top of teaching this class since 1989. You can learn all you need if you read slides in detail.
• Not always I will cover all slides in class. In such case you have to complete reading slides for this week at home.
• You can learn a lot from previous homeworks and projects that are posted.

and Additional Textbooks
•
Required and recommended
–
VHDL and FPLDs. Zoran Salcic . CD ROM included.
Kluwer Academic Publishers
– see my web page
•
Additional
– The Designer’s Guide to VHDL
• Peter J. Ashenden
• Morgan-Kaufman
• ISBN 1-55860-270-4 (paperback)
• LOC TK7888.3.A863
• Dewey Decimal 621.39’2--dc20
• 1996

• IEEE Standard 1076-1993
– find using search engines on WWW
• Use my WWW Page resources, too much to digest.
• IEEE Interactive VHDL Tutorial
– On-line on Computer Engineering Home page
– http://cpe.gmu.edu
– password protected

• Our Book
• Cypress Semiconductor (Warp release 5.x)
– PC-based
– $99 with textbook
– Oriented towards Their PLD & FPGA devices
– VHDL Subset simulator
• Xilinx FPGA
– Student edition
– Schematic, FSM, VHDL

• You Are Encouraged to Collaborate With Other
Students in Projects.
• Final VHDL code for each
Homework should be done by yourself.
• In
Final Project , each file should have at the top student name of the student responsible for this part of code.

Remind the class….
• Your webpage
• List of your names with interests and experiences. Previous design projects that you have done.
– Any experience in robotics?
– Any experience in pipelined and systolic processors?
– Any experience with image processing?
– Previous VHDL or Verilog projects.
– C++ experience
– Other languages like LISP, Prolog, Basic, etc.
– I will intentionally repeat the most important parts of material or ideas. I believe in real understanding of material by students and good understanding of fundamentals is most important for me.
– You have to understand the combinational logic, flip-flops, registers, state diagrams, pipelining, ALU, etc.

1. Simple Satisfiability Machine
2. Simple Petric Function Oracle based machine
3. Any type of Sorter
4. Fibonacci sequence generator
5. GCD
6. LCM
7. Any other controller from CU and DP.
8. Any other oracle, SEND+MORE=MONEY, graph coloring, etc.
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

Projects for year 2008 Transforms
1. Hough Transforms
2. Radon Transforms
3. Fast Fourier Transform
4. Hadamard
5. Haar
6. Adding
7. Arithmetic
8. Gabor
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

Projects for year 2008 Oracles
1. Graph Coloring (optimized)
2. FPRM learning
3. Logic Puzzles
4. Error Correcting codes design
5. Traveling Salesman
6. Any other oracles with practical use
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

Projects for year 2008 Cellular
Automata and Robotics
1. Mandelbrot Set with quaternions and octonions
2. Robot Vision with morphological algebras
3. Galois Field Arithmetics for robot vision
4. Neural Net for a robot
5. PID controller for a robot
6. Sum of Product minimization for a robot
7. Decision trees in hardware for robot
8. Car model control
9. Logic Decomposition
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

Projects for year 2008 Cellular
Automata and Robotics
1. Hidden Markov Model
2. Kalman Filter for robot
3. Particle Filter for robot obstacle avoidance
4. Genetic Algorithm in hardware
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

1. Speech Recognition for a robot (new)
2. Rough Set Machine (continuation - Torrey
Lewis)
3. Convolutional Image Processor
(continuation)
4. Controller of a Robot (new)
5. Evolvable Hardware (new)
These are just examples, more projects will be added, you can propose your own project.

•Mealy and
Moore
•Registered
Output
•Rabin-Scott

Discuss generator of all functions of certain type, use
MUX as example

Realizing Sum of Products (SOP) using
NAND/NAND

Implementation Using Multiplexers

FA implementation using Decoders

Behavioral Model of Sequential Adder

To discuss on white-board
• Sorting data flow
– Pipelined circuit from it
– Butterfly combinational circuit from it
– Sequential controller from it
• The concepts:
– Combinational circuit
– Finite State machine
– Shifting circuits, starting from Moebius Counter. (Johnson)
– Cooperating FSMs.
– Iterative Circuit
– Pipelined circuit
– Systolic circuit
– Cellular automaton

For students to remember
• SOP and POS
• Nand, Nor and De Morgan
• Multiplexer
• Decoder
• Adder
• Iterative circuit for adder
• Other iterative circuits
• D flip-flop
• Flip-flop and register without and with enable.
• Use of enable in other circuits
• Sequential versus parallel circuits – trade-off.