ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

EEL201 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS

TUTORIAL 6

October 2, 2010

Q1. A busy highway is intersected by a little used farm road. Detectors

are installed that cause the signal, C, to go high in the presence of
cars on the farm road at the crossing. We wish to control traffic
lights at the intersection so that the absence of any cars waiting to
cross or turn right on the highway from the farm road, the highway
light will remain green. If any car/cars is/are detected at the farm
road intersection, we turn the highway light to amber and then to Red
and the farm road light to green. The farm road light to remain green
only while the detectors detect car(s) on the farm road junction but
never longer than 20 seconds. The farm road light then moves to
amber and then to Red and the highway light to green. The highway
lights are not to be interrupted for 40 seconds after it turns green.

Q2. Design a synchronous modulo 6 counter. Assume a gate delay of τ sec.

and a FF delay of 3τ seconds. Use only 2 input NAND gates to realize
your combinational logic. Use T flip flops for your design. Draw the
timing diagram for six cycles for all the outputs and T inputs.

Q3. Design a synchronous circuit using positive edge triggered D FF with

one external input X and one output Z. When X remains 1 for three
successive clocks, the output Z goes to 1 on the third clock timing
event. For all other combinations of X and clock the output Z is to be
0 and the machine returns to the rest state. Draw the State Diagram
and design the state machine.