Digital assignment -3

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN LAB

Task 3

Simulation tool: CADsoftEagle

P.HAMSA DATTA
15BEC0173
L29+L30 SLOT

Introduction:
Stepper Driver

These chips keep the power that drives the motors separate from the power that
is on the arduino. The arduino can't provide enough juice to power the stepper
motors directly. This is why you have to use separate chips to sort of act as
valves that control how the motor spins.
Another benefit that stepper driver chips provide, is that they
provide fractional steps. This helps smooth out the motion of the stepper motor.
Without fractional steps, stepper motors can have a tendency to vibrate or
resonate at certain RPMs.

Microcontroller-based Stepper Drivers

Microcontroller based steppers drivers can achieve very high rotation speeds in
stepper motors. Using a microcontroller, it is possible to have extreme control
over exactly how each individual coil is energized inside the motor. This is
absolutely necessary to obtain high speeds because as speed increases, timing of
the coils firing must be perfectly in sync

Real time PCB

Schematic using Eagle software:

PCB Front-ended layout:

Fully routed PCB layout:

INTRODUCTION:
Altera Corporation was an American manufacturer of programmable logic
devices (PLDs), reconfigurable complex digital circuits. The company released
its first PLD in 1984. Altera's main products are the Stratix, Arria and Cyclone
series FPGAs, the MAX series CPLDs; Quartus II design software, and
Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.

LATEST TECHNOLOGY:
40-nm technology

In May 2008, Altera introduced the industry's first 40-nm programmable logic
devices: the Stratix IV FPGAs and Hardcopy IV ASICs. Both devices are
available with integrated transceiver options. Since then, the company has also
introduced Stratix IV GT FPGAs, which have 11.3 Gbit/s transceivers for
40G/100G applications, and Arria II GX FPGAs, which have 3.75 Gbit/s
transceivers for power- and cost-sensitive applications.

Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company, primarily a supplier

of programmable logic devices. It is known for inventing the fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA) and as the first semiconductor company with
a fabless manufacturing model

Technology
Xilinx designs, develops and markets programmable logic products, including
integrated circuits (ICs), software design tools, predefined system functions
delivered as intellectual property (IP) cores, design services, customer training,
field engineering and technical support. Xilinx sells both FPGAs and CPLDs for
electronic
equipment
manufacturers
in
end
markets
such
as communications, industrial, consumer, automotive and data processing

Spartan-6 Product Advantage

Altera latest Board Overview:

General Description:

The Stratix V GX FPGA development board provides a hardware platform for

developing and prototyping high-performance and high-bandwidth application
designs. The board provides a wide range of peripherals and memory interfaces
to facilitate the development of Stratix V GX FPGA designs.
Two High-Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) connectors are available to add
additional functionality via a variety of HSMC cards available from both Altera
and various partners.
Board Component Blocks

Introduction

The Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit helps designers quickly and efficiently
develops connectivity systems. This complete, easy-to-use connectivity
development and demonstration environment uses the Spartan-6 family for
designing with very common standards based protocols, such as the PCI
Express and Ethernet protocols. This kit implements low-cost protocol
bridging, provides higher efficiency alternative to LVDS communication, and so
forth for use in multiple market segments.

Provided with each Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit is a full seat of

Production Net list of Northwest Logic Packet DMA IP Core for implementing
high speed and maintaining efficient data transfer on the PCIe link.
The Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit enables faster design development and
provides a jump-start through the connectivity targeted reference design
included in it.

Key Features & Benefits

Develop networking applications with 10-100-1000 Mbps Ethernet
Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
Demonstrates a high performance data transfer system using PCI
Express x1
Enabling high-performance serial connectivity with GTP ports on FMC,
SFP & SMA
128MB DDR3 Component Memory
Implement Video display applications with DVI / VGA out
Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface

The board is populated with a -3CES speed grade Spartan-6

XC6SLX45T FGG FPGA.
The USB port labeled USB/JTAG is specifically used for
downloading a configuration bitstream and programming the
flash memory. This port can be used as a debug port, using
JTAG and the ChipScope logic analyzer, but cannot be used as
a standard USB device port. The other USB port (labeled USB
UART) is a USB-to-UART bridge that can be used as a serial
communication channel

APPLICATIONS:
An FPGA can be used to solve any problem which is computable. This is
trivially proven by the fact FPGA can be used to implement a soft
microprocessor, such as the Xilinx Micro Blaze or Altera Nios II. Their
advantage lies in that they are sometimes significantly faster for some
applications because of their parallel nature and optimality in terms of the
number of gates used for a certain process.
Traditionally, FPGAs
have
been
reserved
for
specific vertical
applications where the volume of production is small. For these low-volume
applications, the premium that companies pay in hardware costs per unit for a
programmable chip is more affordable than the development resources spent on
creating an ASIC for a low-volume application. Today, new cost and
performance dynamics have broadened the range of viable applications.