Homework 5 -- Graphics <---> HDL


Design Entry and Control

HDL2Graphics:

Read the following tutorial and note the capabilites of the tool:

hds_hdl2graphics (42-page protected pdf)

Seq_Generator.vhd (4-page protected pdf)

uut_top_block_p17

control_state_diagram_p22

control_flow_diagram_p25

statecad

statecad-flow

generated_schematic

Graphics2HDL:

Read the following tutorial and note the capabilites of the tool:

hds_graphics2hdl (254-page protected pdf)

tut_top_block_p33

tut_state_diagram_p38

tut_truth_table_p70

GUI Tutorial:

Execute portions of the following tutorial on ada3 by typing:

Windows-7 users may need to download some fonts from the xming website.

mkdir 551-hw5; cd 551-hw5; hds &

and capture a block diagram (page 11) and a flowchart (page 22).

Design Exploration Tutorial (36-page protected pdf).

The path will be: /usr/local/mentor/hds_2008.1b/examples/tutorial_ref/Import

Select the VHDL example for Sequencer: Seq_Generator.vhd ; Seq_Tester.vhd ; Seq_TestBench.vhd


Link your results to your protected webpage and update hw.html

dbouldin@tennessee.edu