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Flip-Flops and Registers

(Lecture #19)

The slides included herein were taken from the materials accompanying

Fundamentals of Logic Design, 6th Edition, by Roth and Kinney,

and were used with permission from Cengage Learning.

Spring 2011 ECE 331 - Digital System Design 2

Flip-Flops

(continued)


SR Flip-Flop● The SR Flip-Flop has three inputs

– Clock (Ck) --- denoted by the small arrowhead

– Set (S) and Reset (R)

● Similar to an SR Latch

– S = 1 sets the flip-flop (Q+ = 1)

– R = 1 resets the flip-flop (Q+ = 0)

● Like the D Flip-Flop, the Q output of an SR Flip-Flop only changes in response to an active clock edge.

– Positive edge-triggered

– Negative edge-triggered


SR Flip-Flop

S R Q Q+

0 0 0 0

0 0 1 1

0 1 0 0

0 1 1 0

1 0 0 1

1 0 1 1

1 1 0 not

1 1 1 allowed

}Q+ = Q

Q+ = 0

Q+ = 1set

reset

store

}}

positive edge-triggeredSR Flip-Flop

State change occurs after active Clock edge


SR Flip-Flop (master-slave)

Enabled on opposite levels of the clock

SR Latches


SR Flip-Flop: Timing Diagram


JK Flip-Flop● The JK Flip-Flop has three inputs


– J and K

● Similar to the SR Flip-Flop

– J corresponds to S: J = 1 → Q+ = 1

– K corresponds to R: K = 1 → Q+ = 0

● Different from the SR Flip-Flop in that the input combination J = 1, K = 1 is allowed.

– J = K = 1 causes the Q output to toggle after an active clock edge.


JK Flip-Flop

}Q+ = Q

}Q+ = 0

}Q+ = 1

}Q+ = Q'

set

reset

store

toggle

Q+ = J.Q' + K'.Q

Characteristic Equation:


JK Flip-Flop (master-slave)

SR Latches

Enabled on opposite levels of the clock


JK Flip-Flop: Timing Diagram


T Flip-Flop

● The Toggle (T) Flip-Flop has two inputs


– Toggle (T)

● The T input controls the state change

– when T = 0, the state does not change (Q+ = Q)

– when T = 1, the state changes following an active clock edge (Q+ = Q')

● T Flip-Flops are often used in the design of counters.


T Flip-Flop

Q+ = T.Q' + T'.Q = T xor Q

Characteristic Equation:


T Flip-Flop: Timing Diagram


Building a T Flip-Flop


Asynchronous Control Signals


Asynchronous Control Signals: Timing Diagram


D FF with Clock Enable


Flip-Flops in VHDL


JK Flip-Floparchitecture JKFF of JKFF_entity is

signal

Qint: std_logic;

beginQ <= Qint;Qnot <= not (Qint);

process (Clk)

begin

if Clk'event and Clk = '0' thenQint <= (J and not (Qint)) or (not (K) and Qint);

end if;

end process;

end architecture;

FF

Clk


D FF with Asynchronous Inputs

process (Clk)

begin

if ClrN = '0' then Q <= 0;

elsif PreN = '0' then Q <= 1;

elsif Clk'event and Clk = '1' then

Q <= D;

end if;

end process;

Clk


Registers


Several D flip-flops may be grouped together with a common

clock to form a register. Because each flip-flop can store one

bit of information, a register with n D flip-flops can store n bits

of information.

A load signal can be ANDed with the clock to enable and

disable loading the registers.

A better approach is to use registers with clock enables if

they are available.

Registers


Register: 4 bits


Data Transfer between Registers

● Data transfer between registers is a common operation in computer (i.e. digital) systems.

● Multiple registers can be interconnected using tri-state buffers.

● Data can be transferred between two registers by enabling the proper tri-state buffer.


Data Transfer between Registers


Register with Tri-state Output


Data Transfer using Tri-state Bus


A shift register is a register in which binary data can be stored

and shifted either left or right. The data is shifted according to

the applied shift signal; often there is a left shift signal and a

right shift signal.

A shift register must be constructed using flip-flops (i.e. edge-

triggered devices); it cannot be constructed using latches or

gated-latches (i.e. level-sensitive devices).

Shift Register


Shift Register: 4 bits


Shift Register (4 bits): Timing Diagram


8-bit SI SO Shift Register


4-bit PI PO Shift Register


4-bit PI PO Shift Register: Operation


Registers in VHDL


4-bit Shift-Right Register

process (Clock)

begin

if (Clk'event and Clk = '1') and Shift = '1' then

Q3 <= SI after 8 ns;

Q2 <= Q3 after 8 ns;



SO <= Q0 after 8 ns;

end if;

end process;


Parallel Adder with Accumulator


In computer circuits, it is frequently desirable to store one

number in a register (called an accumulator) and add a

second number to it, leaving the result stored in the register.

Parallel Adder with Accumulator


n-bit Parallel Adder with Accumulator


Before addition in the previous circuit can take place, the

accumulator must be loaded with X. This can be

accomplished in several ways. The easiest way is to first

clear the accumulator using the asynchronous clear inputs

on the flip-flops, and then put the X data on the Y inputs to

the adder and add the accumulator in the normal way.

Alternatively, we could add multiplexers at the accumulator

inputs so that we could select either the Y input data or the

adder output to load into the accumulator.

Loading the Accumulator


Adder Cell with Multiplexer


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