UPC EETAC Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Systems and in Network Engineering EEL

Chapter 2 problems

     - D2.20 -

5-bit Johnson counter (FPGA-VHDL)

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D2.19

D2.21

1. Specifications

Replicating the functionality of obsolete chips when they are required for some applications is always possible targeting programmable devices like FPGA or CPLD. Let us infer the classic chip 74HC4017 represented in Fig. 1, a Johnson decade counte, using VHDL and EDA tools from Intel such Quartus Prime and ModelSim Intel edition. target chip may be a Cyclone IV FPGA. 

The same project designed programming a μC is in D3.20.

74HCT4017

Fig. 1. Internal structure of the chip implemented by NXP.

Let us add and define the new features stated in Fig. 2.

Counter

Fig. 2. Symbol adapted to our naming conventions and description of the chip functionality (Visio).

Even if the schematic in Fig. 1 is is indicating an internal architecture based on several internal blocks (plan C2), you can use also plan A and plan B to solve this problem and compare circuit realisations and their respective performance.

Determine the maximum execution speed for the given target chip.

To make it easy, you can approach the problem in successive steps. For instance:

- Step 1: plan, design and test completely a 10-bit one-hot up counter with counter enable (CE) control signal.

- Step 2: copy your previous project source files in a new folder and add the feature up/down (UD_L) to make the device reversible.

- Step 3: copy your previous project source files in a new folder and add the output combinational function to translate Johnson to one-hot code (control signal Code).