题目:Suppose you are designing a circuit to control a cellphone's ringer and vibration motor. Whenever the phone needs to ring from an incoming call (input ring
), your circuit must either turn on the ringer (output ringer = 1
) or the motor (output motor = 1
), but not both. If the phone is in vibrate mode (input vibrate_mode = 1
), turn on the motor. Otherwise, turn on the ringer.
Try to use only assign
statements, to see whether you can translate a problem description into a collection of logic gates.
Design hint: When designing circuits, one often has to think of the problem "backwards", starting from the outputs then working backwards towards the inputs. This is often the opposite of how one would think about a (sequential, imperative) programming problem, where one would look at the inputs first then decide on an action (or output). For sequential programs, one would often think "If (inputs are ___ ) then (output should be ___ )". On the other hand, hardware designers often think "The (output should be ___ ) when (inputs are ___ )".
The above problem description is written in an imperative form suitable for software programming (if ring then do this), so you must convert it to a more declarative form suitable for hardware implementation (assign ringer = ___
). Being able to think in, and translate between, both styles is one of the most important skills needed for hardware design.
大意:设计一个手机铃声/振动的控制系统,当手机处于振动模式(vibrate_mode=1),且有电话时motor=1,否则ringer=1.
解法:
module top_module (
input ring,
input vibrate_mode,
output ringer, // Make sound
output motor // Vibrate
);
assign ringer = vibrate_mode==0&&ring==1? 1:0;
assign motor = vibrate_mode&&ring? 1:0;
endmodule
官方解法:
module top_module(
input ring,
input vibrate_mode,
output ringer,
output motor
);
// When should ringer be on? When (phone is ringing) and (phone is not in vibrate mode)
assign ringer = ring & ~vibrate_mode;
// When should motor be on? When (phone is ringing) and (phone is in vibrate mode)
assign motor = ring & vibrate_mode;
endmodule
题目要求2行,没多想直接用了三目运算符。。。