Jack Gray

ELEC3040: Digital Design Lab (Profs Nelson and Hung ): Midterm Report March 1, 2013

Subject
During Lab 3, the goals were to use have LEDs count sequentially, and to make the LEDs increment from zero to nine or decrement from nine to zero at a rate of one bit per second. CodeWarrior was used to create the appropriate code that was loaded to the DragonFly chip.

Test Procedure
After creating a rough draft of the code, the DragonFly chip was wired to the EEBOARD according to Table 1. Once the DragonFly was correctly wired to the EEBOARD, some corrections had to be made so switch one and two would be displayed on the LEDs. These were used to control if the LEDs were incrementing or decrementing. Once the direction could be controlled, the LEDs had to change at a rate of one bit per second.

Figure 1: Connections from Circuit to EEBoard Digital Block

Observations
Once the code was loaded to the DragonFly chip and the chip was activated, the LEDs incremented from zero to nine and then recycled continuously. The LEDs were connected to the Logic Analyzer according to Table 1. In Figure 1, the LEDs can be seen on DIO 8-11. This was relatively hard to keep count on so an adjustment had to be made.

Figure 2: Incrementing LEDs Not Showing Count In Figure 3, the LEDs were combined to make a bus so that the count could be easily read while using the single run button. Figure 3 shows the LEDs at the end of the incrimination cycle and beginning the next cycle. The LEDs could also decrement depending on the conguration of switch one and two.

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Jack Gray

ELEC3040: Digital Design Lab (Profs Nelson and Hung ): Midterm Report March 1, 2013

Figure 3: Incrementing LEDs Showing Count The rate at which the LEDs changed could be read on the bottom of Figures 2 and 3. It was read to be about 500ms or half a second. In order to get the count to change every second, the rst bit, DIO 8, was wired to the oscilloscope and the rate at which it changed was observed. It initially changed about every half second. In order to get LED count to change every second, the delay had to be increased. This took multiple trials to get the one second change rate. The LED one second change rate can be seen in Figure 4.

Figure 4: LED Rate of Change

Conclusion
Initially getting the LEDs to display and count in consecutive order was relatively challenging. This was easily converted over to show the incrimination of the LEDs by creating the Bus. The last part of getting the bit change rate to one second simply involved changing the delay. From these dierent little projects, the LEDs were shown to change at a rate of one second and could increment or decrement.

Works Cited
ELEC 3040 Lab Manual LAB 3 System analysis and Debugging with Oscilloscope and Logic Analyzer

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