Warmup You are asked organize the Boston Marathons, which this year will be fi ve separate races on the same course. In each race, the fastest runner will take at least 2 hours, and the slowest runner will fi nish in 5 hours or less. Multiple races can use the course at once, but everyone from one race must fi nish before racers from the next race can fi nish. It takes 10 minutes to reset the fi nish line after the last runner crosses from each race. How long will it take for all fi ve races to fi nish? Besides making people run faster, how can you speed it up?
EE 201: Combinational logic with VHDL Steven Bell 5 February 2019
By the end of class today, you should be able to: Using a cheatsheet, write a complete VHDL entity Use VHDL to implement a boolean equation or truth table Simulate VHDL using Modelsim and manually verify correctness
VHDL vs SystemVerilog It's kinda like MATLAB vs Python/NumPy Other courses at Tufts use VHDL
digital design POWER TOOLS!
When all you have is a hammer...
VHDL is designed for multiple things Model hardware that you'll build with "real" components Design hardware you'll implement with an FPGA or ASIC process Test designs or models for the above two scenarios
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For Thursday 1. Read the book (4.3, 4.9) and complete the pre-class quiz 2. Homework 2 due on Thursday (2/7) 3. Homework 3 posted tomorrow, due on Tuesday (2/12)
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