Fireplace Control Project

Zackary Fernandes
Digital Electronics PLTW
Diana C. Lobosco STEM Academy
27 October 2020

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 Table Of Content
Design Brief 3

Truth Table 4

Karnaugh Maps 5

Conclusion 6

Hand Drawn Circuit Diagram 7

Multisim 8

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 Design Brief

Designer: The Engineer

Client: Acme Fireplace Company

Problem Statement: The engineer must redesign the fireplace control circuit
for their latest residential gas fireplace

Design Statement: We must design, build and test a fireplace control circuit.

Criteria:
● emergency cut-off value should remain open as long as three of the four 
sensors indicate that a flame is present. 
● add a second output indicator to the control circuit 

Constraints:

● Materials
● Time

Truth Table
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A B C D Faulty
Emerg Sensor
ency

Cutoff
Valve

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 1

0 0 1 0 0 1

0 0 1 1 0 1

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 0 1 0 1

0 1 1 0 0 1

0 1 1 1 1 1

1 0 0 0 0 1

1 0 0 1 0 1

1 0 1 0 0 1

1 0 1 1 1 1

1 1 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 1

1 1 1 0 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 0

Karnaugh Maps

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K- Mapping Faulty Sensor

A’B’ A’B AB AB’

C’D’ 0 1 1 1

C’D 1 ​1​/​1 ​1 1

CD 1 ​1 0 1

CD’ 1 1 1 ​1​/​1

K- Mapping Emergency Cutoff Valve

A’B’ A’B AB AB’

C’D’ 0 0 0 0

C’D 0 0 1 0

CD 0 ​1 ​1
1​/​1​/​1​/​1

CD’ 0 0 ​1 0

Cut off = ACD+ABD+ABC+BCD

Sensor=AC’+BC’+A’D+AB’

Conclusion

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In conclusion we learned more about making circuits and karnaugh
mapping. This taught us more about multisim and how to make circuits
on it. We also went back over a design brief which we learned about last
year so it was reimplemented in this assignment. I also created a truth
table and the expressions for the fireplace. This was all used to create a
fireplace circuit.

Hand Drawn Circuit Diagram

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Multisim