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ENGSCI 232 Computer Systems
Lecture 5: Synchronous Circuits
°The building block of synchronous circuits,
such as counters and shift registers, is the
flip-flop
°A flip-flop is a device which can be ‘latched’
into either of two possible states and stay in
that state until a specified set of input
conditions occur.
° We can build a latch by using 2 NAND gates with
appropriate coupling.
° Clocks
° An asynchronous system allows states to change whenever one or more
inputs change. This is generally harder to design and fault-find than a
synchronous system. We will consider synchronous systems in this lecture.
° Here the exact times at which outputs can change state is determined by the
‘clock’ signal.
° The clock is normally a regular rectangular waveform and is applied to many
component within a digital system.
° A flip-flop may be designed to trigger on either the rising or falling edge of the
clock pulse (ie when the clock is changing from 0 ->1 or 1->0).
° D-Type Flip-Flop
JK-type flip-flops
° Similar to D flip-flop, but has two data inputs
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J
Q
clock
K
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R
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Qn
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Qn
Building a Counter using flip-flops
° To count electrical pulses, feed signal into clock input
° Chain a flip-flop output to next flip-flop clock to add extras bits to your
counter
Q0
input clock
Q1
Q2
Q3
D
Q
D
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D
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D
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C
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C
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C
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negative edge triggered
flip-flops
input clock
Q0
Q1
Q2
binary
base10
Shift Registers
° We often need to shift bits left, eg to ...
° We do this using a shift register (eg built from flip-flops)
Q0
data
input clock
Q1
Q2
Q3
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Step Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0
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Registers
° Registers store working data
• think of as a small scratch-pad of memory
• fast access
° Data moves between registers on a ...
• use a system .......... to ensure synchronisation
° Can use N flip-flops to make an N-bit register (just like memory)
° Add digital logic to perform further functions
• load preset data
• shift left
• shift right
• shift by n bits left or right
• count
Registers and databuses
° Different registers can grab data from a common data bus
- at different times
Memory
Storage
Data Bus (32 bits wide)
Register 1
Register 2
Load 2
Load 1
Control
ALU
Result Register
ALUop
Status Register
Load result
° Real vs Ideal Components
° Because voltages cannot change instantaneously, all real devices have propogation
delays where the actual output lags behind that expected theoretically. While the
voltage is changing, we have voltages that are not 0V or 5V that are often input to a
second device. A device has some arbitrary cutoff (eg 2.5V) above which the input is
interpreted as a true and below which as false.
° For example, consider an inverter. When input goes 0V -> 5V, output goes 5V -> 0V but
NOT instantly. When the input goes 5V -> 0V, output goes 0V -> 5V but NOT instantly.
Timing and Control by CPU
° CPU generates control signals to co-ordinate operations such as memory
read write
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CPU
Clk
Address
Read
Address
Decoder
R5
R4
Write
R3
R2
R1
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Data
R0