Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
EE 379K
Fall 2000
Y. N. Patt, Instructor
TAs: Kathy Buchheit, Laura Funderburg, Chandresh Jain, Onur Multu, Danny Nold, Kameswar Subramanian, Francis Tseng, Brian Ward
Problem Set 2
Due: September 25, 2000

Instructions: You are encouraged to do homework in groups. Remember to put all group members? names on the solution sheet. Also, remember to put the unique number of the discussion session you want the homework returned back to you. Good luck!!!
 

1. Same as problem 3.5 in text (pg. 69).
- Fill in the truth table for the transistor-level circuit in Figure 2.

A B C | OUT
------|-----
0 0 0 |
0 0 1 |
0 1 0 |
0 1 1 |
1 0 0 |
1 0 1 |
1 1 0 |
1 1 1 |


2. Same as problem 3.20 in text (pg. 72)
- Referring to Figure 3.30 on page 73 in the text, complete the truth table for this gate level schematic.
 

3. Same as problem 3.6 in text (pg. 69)
- The circuit in Figure 6 has a flaw.

  1. Under what input conditions does an error occur?
  2. What is the error?


4. Fill in the truth table for the basic S-R Latch, shown in Figure 7. The left side of the truth table is the current state of the circuit, and the right side of the truth table is the next state of the circuit (in other words, the values of a and b a some time after S and R have been applied). Three lines have been done for you as an example.

S R a b | a+ b+
--------|-------
1 1 0 1 |
1 1 1 0 |
1 0 0 1 | 0  1
1 0 1 0 |
0 1 0 1 |
0 1 1 0 |
0 0 0 1 | ?  ?
0 0 1 0 | ?  ?
The last two cases have been filled out for you. You do not have to work them out.


5. Implement a 4-to-1 MUX using only 2-to-1 MUXes making sure to properly connect all of the terminals. Remember that you will have 4 inputs, 2 control signals, and one output. Write out the truth table for this circuit.
 

Previous problems 6 and 7 have been taken out, here is the new problem 6:

6. Same as problem 3.19 in text, refer to figure 3.29 in text (pg. 72)

  1. Figure 3.29 shows a logic circuit that appears in many of today's processors. Each of the boxes is a full adder circuit. What does the value on wire X do? That is, what is the difference in the output of this circuit if X=0 versus X=1?
  2. Construct a logic diagram that implements an adder/subtracter. That is, the logic circuit will compute A + B or A - B depending on the value of X. Hint: Use the logic diagram of Figure 3.29 as a building block.