Digital Logic Board
After having created a working digital prototype on Multisim we were asked to recreate the circuit in PLD file type in order to load the circuit to our Digital Logic Boards. Basically the Digital Logic Boards are bread boards on steroids; superior to bread boards they do not require physical AND, OR, NOR, or NAND gates as these, along with many other types of gates, are preloaded onto the interface. This lets us design circuits virtually, on multisim, quickly upload them to our board using a USB cable, and test them.
Pros of Digital Logic BoardEasier to design and test circuit.
(Which is very important while designing complicated circuits) Faster than traditional boards Extensive gate variety |
Cons of Digital Logic BoardSpace consumption
Confusing when used for the first time Software/file type not diretly transferable to traditional boards |
Multisim Design (Recreated for PLD file type)
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Above is a picture of my birthday project circuit just redrawn in PLD file type so that it will work on the Digital Logic Board.
Video
Below is a video of my circuit running on a Digital Logic Board. To do this I had to redraw my multisim circuit, found on the Birthday Project Part 1 Page of this website, in PLD format so that it could be read by the Digital Logic Board. It looks almost exactly the same as the multisim circuit only the icons are a little different. But below is the video - as I flip switches to count in binary (000, 001, 010, 011, etc.) the board displays my birthday! (07/18/95)