CPE 100L

Logic Design I Laboratory

Laboratory Exercise #7 & 8

Simple House Alarm Systems

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Nevada, at Las Vegas

Goals:
Design a simple house alarm systems.

Background: House alarm systems consist of four sensors:

1) Front Door
2) Rear Door
3) Window
4) Motion sensor

House alarm system has two modes of operation:

a) Armed: alarm system is on when armed input signal = 1
b) Away: no one is at home, away = 1

Alarm system operation:

 If alarm is armed and occupants are away from the house input from any of the
sensors will activate the alarm system.
 If the occupants are at home and the alarm system is armed, then only output from
the sensors at the front / rear doors and windows will activate the alarm systems.
 If the alarm system is not armed, then there will never be an alarm.

Figure 7-1: House Alarm Systems

Top level block diagram of the house alarm system is as follows:

Figure 7-2: House Alarm Systems Top Level Block Diagram

Prelab:
1.0 Schematic:
Design house alarm system starting with truth table and apply logic simplification
techniques to minimize gate count. Simulate your alarm system and capture waveforms
of your simulation.

Pre-Lab Deliverables:
1) Submit your completed schematics, truth tables and simulated waveforms.

Lab Experiments:
Experiment 1: Implement your designs and demonstrate operation of your circuit to TA.

Post-Lab Deliverables:
1) Submit your completed schematics, codes, measured data and captured
waveforms.