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DC Transfer Characteristic: CS150, Spring 2010 1 Discussion Section Worksheet

The document discusses a homework assignment for a digital logic design course that contains 5 questions: 1) Analyzing the DC transfer characteristic of inverters in series and drawing related diagrams. 2) Implementing a 3-input Boolean function using only 2-input lookup tables on an FPGA. 3) Determining what a circuit with D flip-flops, set, clear, and clock inputs does. 4) Adding additional components like multiplexers and enable/reset signals to basic D flip-flops using AND, OR, and NOT gates. 5) Proving claims about building Boolean functions from basic logic gates and constructing an XOR gate from combinations of gates.

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DC Transfer Characteristic: CS150, Spring 2010 1 Discussion Section Worksheet

The document discusses a homework assignment for a digital logic design course that contains 5 questions: 1) Analyzing the DC transfer characteristic of inverters in series and drawing related diagrams. 2) Implementing a 3-input Boolean function using only 2-input lookup tables on an FPGA. 3) Determining what a circuit with D flip-flops, set, clear, and clock inputs does. 4) Adding additional components like multiplexers and enable/reset signals to basic D flip-flops using AND, OR, and NOT gates. 5) Proving claims about building Boolean functions from basic logic gates and constructing an XOR gate from combinations of gates.

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CS150, Spring 2010

1 Discussion Section Worksheet


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Brandon Myers
Jan 29, 11-12p
1. The below plot is a DC Transfer Characteristic for a hypothetical inverter.
a) Sketch the DC Transfer Characteristic for two inverters in series (on a separate set of axes).

b) Draw the truth table for the new component.


c) Draw a schematic for the new component. Give a name to the component.
d) Are the two inverters in series a useful component? Why or why not?

DC Transfer Characteristic
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2. How can you implement a 3-input Boolean function on an FPGA, if you only have 2-input
LUTs? Explain why your solution works.

3. What does the below circuit do?


In

SET

CLR

Clock

Out

Reset

4. Our toolbox contains an lots of AND, OR, and NOT gates, and basic D flip-flops. Sadly, our
D flip-flops have only D and Clock inputs and of course a Q output.
a) Basic gates are annoying to work with! Add a 2:1 Mux to our toolbox using what we have.

b) It would be nice if our D flip-flop had an enable signal. Add this using whats in our toolbox.

c) Add a Reset signal to our D flip-flop. Does your design have asynchronous or synchronous
reset?

5. It turns out that you can build any Boolean function out of NOT and 2-input AND and OR
gates.
a) are there any 2-input gates (functions) that by themselves can build any Boolean function?
b) prove your claim in (a).

c) Build an XOR out of AND, OR, NOT gates. If your answer to (a) was yes, then build an XOR
also out of just that special gate.

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