VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HO CHI MINH CITY

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

LSI Logic Design Lab - CO3098 - CC01

Lab’s Report
Design and Implement Ring Flasher

Advisor: Tôn Huỳnh Long

Students: Lê Ngọc An – 2252007
Vũ Trịnh Thanh Bình – 2252085
Trương Phú Cường – 2252100
Nguyễn Ngọc Duy – 2252118
Nguyễn Thiên Phúc – 2252645

HO CHI MINH CITY, December 2024

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Contents
1 RTL Code 2
1.1 Waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2 Design Specification 3
2.1 Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Functional Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3 Internal implementation 7
3.1 Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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1 RTL Code
1 module ring_flasher (
2 input clk ,
3 input reset ,
4 input status ,
5 output reg [0:15] led
6 );
7
8 reg [31:0] count ;
9 reg [3:0] mode ;
10 reg [3:0] clockwise ;
11 reg [3:0] anti_clockwise ;
12 reg [3:0] point ;
13 reg active ;
14
15 initial begin
16 count = 0;
17 mode = 0;
18 clockwise = 0;
19 anti_clockwise = 0;
20 point = 0;
21 led = 16 ’ b0 ;
22 active = 0;
23 end
24
25 always @ ( posedge clk or posedge reset ) begin
26 if ( reset ) begin
27 count <= 0;
28 led <= 16 ’ b0 ;
29 clockwise <= 0;
30 anti_clockwise <= 0;
31 mode <= 0;
32 point <= 0;
33 end
34 else begin
35 if ( status ) active <= 1;
36
37 if ( active == 1) begin
38 if ( mode ==1) begin
39 led [ point ] <= ~ led [ point ];
40 anti_clockwise <= anti_clockwise + 1;
41 if ( anti_clockwise == 3) begin
42 anti_clockwise <= 0;
43 count <= count +1;
44 mode <= 0;
45 if ( count == 7) begin
46 active <= 0;
47 count <=0;
48 end
49 end
50 else point <= point - 1;
51 end
52 else if ( mode ==0) begin
53 led [ point ] <= ~ led [ point ];
54 clockwise <= clockwise + 1;
55 if ( point == 15) if ( clockwise != 7) if ( count != 7) point <=
0;
56 if ( clockwise == 7) begin
57 clockwise <= 0;
58 mode <= 1;
59 end

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Figure 1: Testbench waveform on Cadence tool

60 else point <= point + 1;

61 end
62
63 end
64 end
65 endmodule
Listing 1: Ring Flasher

1.1 Waveform

2 Design Specification
2.1 Interface

Figure 2: Figure of Ring Flasher

Signal Width In/Out Description

clk 1 In The clk (clock) is used to synchronize the entire
system, controlling state transitions and updat-
ing the LED state at each clock cycle.
reset 1 In The reset is used to return the system to the
initial state.
status 1 In The status is to trigger the program to start init.
led 16 Out The led is used to make a list containing 16
LEDs for the system.

Table 1: Description of signals in Ring Flasher

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2.2 Functional Implementation

– Implement a Ring Flasher System with 16-bits LEDs.
– System’s Operation base on two input signal:

• Reset

• Clock

- At the initial state, all LEDs are OFF. If the active-HIGH repeat signal is ACTIVE, the flasher
will start operating:
(1) Starting from led[0], the lights will turn ON one-by-one clockwise at set intervals.

(2) After 8 counts (i.e. when led[7] lights up), the LED will start to turn OFF one-by-one in the
anti-clockwise direction.

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(3) After 4 LEDs are turned OFF in sequence (i.e. when led[4] has turned down), the LED ring
will again start to turn ON one-by-one in the clockwise direction 8 times.

(4) After that, 4 LEDs will gradually turn OFF in the opposite direction, then 8 LEDs will turn
ON in the original direction, then 4 LEDs will gradually turn OFF in the opposite direction, so on
and so forth.
- After moving clockwise and anti-clockwise in the same pattern 3 times each, the next step of
moving clockwise 8 LEDs will go over LEDs that are already ON. In the case the LED is already
ON, it is instead toggled OFF.

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(5) Likewise, the anticlockwise step will turn the LEDs on one by one.

(6) Eventually, all LEDs will be turned OFF at the end of an anti-clockwise step. At this point,
the flasher will return to the initial idle state unless the repeat signal is already ACTIVE.

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3 Internal implementation
3.1 Overall
3.2 State Machine

Figure 3: FSM of Ring Flasher

Variables Width Datatypes Description

active 4 reg The active is to activate the program to start or
restart transit.
count 8 reg The count is used to update how many time that
the program implement the anti-clockwise tran-
sition. If the count is equal to 7, the state come
back to the initial one.
mode 4 reg The mode is to represent either the mode clock-
wise or anti-clockwise.
clockwise 4 reg The clockwise is used to update the position
of led in clockwise transition mode. If clock-
wise==7 then change to anti-clockwise mode.
anti_clockwise 4 reg The anti_clockwise is used to update the po-
sition of led in anti-clockwise transition mode.
If anti_clockwise==3 then change to anti-
clockwise mode.
point 4 reg The point is to represent the position of current
led.

Table 2: variable name of State machine

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State Description
INIT The state initializes the finite state machine.
Clockwise 8 LEDs The state updates the state of each of 8 LEDs after a clock cycle in
a clockwise transition. If it reaches the final LED, it changes to the
Anti-clockwise state.
Anti-clockwise 4 LEDs The state updates the state of each of 4 LEDs after a clock cycle in an
anti-clockwise transition. If it reaches the final LED, it changes to the
Clockwise state.

Table 3: State names of the State Machine

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