VHDL Stopwatch with Split

A presentation
by Scott Conaton
and Colin Dolcetti
 Project Objectives

Build and implement a fully functional

stopwatch using VHDL programming
techniques developed in class.
Demonstrate the use of the stopwatch to the
class as a whole.
 Design

We developed several new modules to

utilize in the main program
Time_Gen: a time value generator, which
outputs the time elapsed since the input,
clkin has been set to 1.
BTNx: toggles the value of its output
whenever it recieves a clock pulse.
 Time_gen

This module consists of four modified

counters, tenscnt, onescnt, tenthcnt, and
hunscnt.
The output of each of these counters is its
corresponding time digit.
The counters each receive the clock pulse
and delay it the appropriate time
 clk

Time_gen

clr clr onescnt clr tenthcnt clr hunscnt

tenscnt

clkin clkin clkin clkin

q4 q3 q2 q1
 Main Program

The main program takes the time value

output by time_gen and sends it to the data
registers T and N.
The display register, DI, loads the value in
N into the display module, which then
outputs the time value to the 7-segment
displays
 FinalMain
clkin Time_gen
BTN?

clk1 Q

BTN(1) debounce clr

tload T
clk
clk

clr T

BTN(2) debounce clr

tload N
clk

clk2 N
diload
BTN? clr
DI
tload clk

N2

display
clk

A(3:0) AtoG(6:0)
dig4(3:0) dig3(3:0) dig2(3:0) dig1(3:0)

clk4

osc_4k

dig4 dig3 dig2 anode

dig1
"1111"
dig7seg

display

A(4:1) AtoG(6:0)
 Main Program Controls

When either button is pressed, its value is

sent through a debounce to reduce it to a
short clock pulse.
The pulse then travels through the BTNx
module which, if BTN(1) is pressed,
toggles the clkin signal, and if BTN(2) is
pressed, toggles the diload signal.
 Effect of clkin and diload
Clkin and diload are initially set to 0 and 1
which stops time_gen, and allows the value
in N to be loaded into DI and displayed.
When clkin goes to 1, time_gen begins to
count and the current value is output to the
displays.
When diload goes to 0, DI no longer loads
any new values from N.
 Effects (Cont.)

At this point N still updates from time_gen

every pulse, but only the last value in DI is
displayed, until BTN(2) is pressed again,
resetting diload to 1.
This is how we created the split effect.
 Demonstration of Stopwatch

We will now demonstrated the final

implementation of our stopwatch program
Please hold your questions until the demo
has finished.