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EGEE 281: VHDL & Digital System Design Fall 2020

The document describes a lab assignment on digital circuit design and simulation using Multisim. The objectives are to help students learn how to construct and simulate various digital circuits in Multisim. The lab will take place over 3 sessions and students will be evaluated based on in-lab activities and a lab report due on September 9th. The document provides instructions on using Multisim and describes several example circuits for students to implement, including a 2-4 decoder, 8-3 encoder, full adder, and 4-bit decade counter.

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EGEE 281: VHDL & Digital System Design Fall 2020

The document describes a lab assignment on digital circuit design and simulation using Multisim. The objectives are to help students learn how to construct and simulate various digital circuits in Multisim. The lab will take place over 3 sessions and students will be evaluated based on in-lab activities and a lab report due on September 9th. The document provides instructions on using Multisim and describes several example circuits for students to implement, including a 2-4 decoder, 8-3 encoder, full adder, and 4-bit decade counter.

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EGEE 281: VHDL & Digital System Design Fall 2020

Lab 1: Digital Circuit Design and Simulation using MULTISIM

Student Name:

Lab Objectives: The main purpose of this lab project is to help students learn how to
construct and simulate various digital circuits in MULTISIM.

Evaluation: Grade for lab will be based on 1) In-lab activities, and 2) Lab report.

Lab Duration: 3 lab sessions

Lab Report: Lab report based on this instruction sheet will be collected on Wednesday,
Sept. 9th. The completed lab report shall be emailed to [email protected]. Name
your lab report as EE281_Lab1_YourName.doc, e.g., EE281_Lab1_DoeJohn.doc.

PART A) About MultiSIM

MultiSIM is an electronic schematic capture and simulation program. Multisim is widely used
in academia and industry for circuit education, electronic schematic design and SPICE simulation. To
start a Multisim project, launch the Multisim program from Windows; then click on the File
menu, and select New Design submenu (Or press Ctrl-N). After this, an empty schematic
sheet will pop up as shown below,

To place a component on the work sheet, you can click on Place menu, then select
Component submenu. (Or press Ctrl-W). When this is done, the component selection
window will pop up as shown below,
a) For example, to add a resistor, select “Master Database” from the Database dropdown
list; then “Basic” from the Group dropdown list; after that “RESISTOR” from the family;
and lastly select the resistor value, e.g. 1K from the Component box. The following

resistor will then appear on the schematic sheet, .

You can also flip the resistors by right clicking the resistor and either “Flip Vertical”, or
“90 Clockwise”, or “90 CounterCW”.

b) For another example, to add power sources, select “Master Database” from the Database
dropdown list; then “Sources” from the Group dropdown list; after that
“POWER_SOURCES” from the family; and lastly select the corresponding power
source, for example

“DC_POWER”: “VCC”: “GROUND”:

The value as well as the name of the power source can be modified through double
clicking the power source, and change the values in the “Value”, and name in the “Label”
Tab.

c) The right bar of the Multisim main window contains various testing instruments. For
example, to add the oscilloscope for testing the AC circuit, click on the “oscilloscope”
icon from the right bar of the Multisim main window that contains various

testing instruments. The completed oscilloscope will look like this . You

can double click the Oscilloscope icon and change the parameters of the oscilloscope
simulation.

PART B) Combinational Circuits

Q1) Decoder
A decoder is a combinational circuit that decodes binary input to decimal information. For
example, the following shows an example circuit for a 2-4 decoder implemented based on the
use of 2-input NAND Gates (74LS00).

Note: Use Single Pole Double Thro (SPDT) switch and flip horizontally.

Figure 1: A 2-4 Decoder

Implement this circuit in Multisim and then test the circuit with different switch values.
Please show below the simulation result for switch values/inputs at (BA = 10). In order
to do this, you may simply use the Print-Screen key on the keyboard to copy the
simulation result into clipboard and then paste it down below.

Simulated Output

Q2) Encoder
An encoder is a combinational circuit that encodes decimal information to binary outputs. For
example, the following shows the circuit design for an active-low 8-3 encoder based on the
use of 4-input NAND Gates (74LS20).
Figure 2: An 8-3 Encoder

Implement this circuit in Multisim and then test the circuit by enabling each decimal input
respectively.
Please show below the simulation result when decimal input #5 is enabled (i.e. input #5
is low; and all other inputs are high).

Simulation
Q3) Full-Adder

A full-adder has three inputs and two outputs. A and B are the two binary bits to be added
and C-in is the carry from the previous lower bit. S is the sum bit and C-out is the carry bit to
the next higher bit. The Boolean expressions for S and Cout can be expressed as:

S= A B Cin + A B C in + A B C in + ABC in
¿ A B C in∗A B C in∗A B Cin∗ABC in

C out= A BCin + A B C in + ABC in + ABC in


¿ A BC in∗A B Cin∗AB Cin∗ABC in

Based on the logic given above, design and implement a full-adder in Multisim using
Inverters (74LS04), 3-input NAND gates (74LS10), and 4-input NAND gates (74LS20).
Then, test the circuit using different combination of inputs.
Please show below the simulation result when inputs are A = 0; B = 1; and C_in = 1.

Simulation
PART C) Sequential Circuit

Q1) 4-bit Decade Counter

A 4-bit decade counter is one type of sequential circuit that will count through each of the
ten states as driven by a clock. The following shows the state transition diagram for a 4-
bit decade counter using Excess-3 code.

Based on this state transition diagram, 4 T Flip Flops can be used to implement the circuit
as their inputs given by,

T1 = Q1Q2 + Q2Q3Q4; T2 = Q1Q2+Q3Q4; T3 = Q1Q2+Q1’Q2’+Q4; and T4 = 1.

An example circuit based on this was created as shown below. Please notice here J-K flip
flops (74LS73) are used here since T flip flops can be constructed by shorting the J and K
inputs on a J-K flip flop.
Figure 3: A 4-bit Decade Counter using Excess-3 Code

Simulation
Logic Analyzer

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