Manual

• Overview
• Familiarization: The Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO)
  • The Tektronix TDS 200 series Digital Storage Oscilloscope
    • First look: verify that the instrument is working correctly
  • Capture a signal using the DSO
  • Use triggering to observe stable waveforms
  • Measure signal parameters
  • Use cursors to take measurements
  • Display two waveforms
  • Perform mathematical operations
  • Appendix
    • More about triggering
    • Data acquisition
    • Hold off
• Experiment: Characterization of a CMOS Inverter
  • Components required and pre-requisites
  • DC Transfer Characteristics
    • Experiment setup
  • Output Characteristics
    • Experimental setup
  • Delay characterization of the inverter
    • Experiment setup
  • Delay variation with supply voltage:
    • Experiment setup
  • Current drawn by the ring oscillator
    • Experiment setup
  • Laboratory assignment report submission
• Familiarization: The Krypton CPLD kit
  • The components of the Krypton Kit
    • The Krypton board
    • The LCD panel card
    • The SRAM daughter card
    • 4x4 Keypad
    • 8-pin strip cable
    • USB programming cable
    • The Krypton card driver for Linux
    • Validation test files
  • Validation tests
    • Test the USB connection between the host computer and the Krypton card
    • Test the LED's, switches, push-buttons and Clocks
    • Test the LCD card
    • Test the CPLD card headers
    • Test the keypad
    • Test the SRAM
• Experiment: Combinational logic implementation on the Krypton kit
  • Logic Design
  • Implementation in VHDL
  • VHDL Implementation of the Priority Encoder With Scalar Interface
    • VHDL code of PriorityEncoder
  • Concept of a test-bench
    • VHDL code of the testbench
    • Testbench which generates the inputs and expected outputs and does the check
    • Python Code for creating the test trace file used in the test-bench (first form)
  • Results obtained by simulating the TestBench together with the PriorityEncoder
    • Case 1: No errors
    • Case 2: Output bit s2 is intentionally stuck at â•Ÿ0â•Ž
  • Experimental procedure
  • Issues
  • Installing and using GHDL
    • Installing ghdl on Windows
    • Installing GHDL on Linux
    • Using GHDL
  • Synthesis using Quartus tools
  • Download the SVF file onto Krypton card
• Familiarization: A scan-chain based circuit tester
  • Scan Chain Insertion
    • Synthesis Project using Quartus
  • Test Input Format
  • Hardware connections
    • Using Tiva-C microcontroller
    • Using Ptx-128 microcontroller
  • Running the test
    • Installation
    • Running the Python script
    • Seeing Results
• Experiment: Implement an 8-Bit ALU using the KRYPTON CPLD card
• Experiment: Implement a simple string recognizer using the KRYPTON CPLD card
  • Laboratory assignment
• Experiment: Implement a greatest-common-divisor circuit using the KRYPTON CPLD card
  • An unsigned divider
  • Use the divider to implement a GCD computation circuit
  • Check the GCD circuit on the KRYPTON CPLD board
• Experiment: RTL with SRAM
• Introduction to the use of a logic analyzer
  • The TLA5202B logic analyzer
  • Logic analyzer windows
  • Example circuit
  • Basic steps for using a logic analyzer
    • Configure the setup window
    • Configure the waveform window
    • Acquire data
    • Try out different triggering conditions
  • Appendix