Designing a 3-bit counter with D flip flops

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Mearyk81

Joined May 31, 2008
3
I have officially reached my wits end. :)

I have been working on this project now for 20 hours and I have absolutely nothing to show for it except some holes in the walls (oops). My problem is thus:


Design a 3 bit counter using 3 D flip flops and one X input. When X is 0, the counter is supposed to count up in multiples of 2 (i.e. 000, 010, 100, 110, 000, etc.). When X is 1, the counter is supposed to count down by odd numbers (i.e. 111, 101, 011, 001, 111, etc.). If X is changed while the counter is going up, the circuit should go to the next lowest odd number on the next clock pulse. If X is changed while the counter is going down, the circuit should go to the next highest even number on the next clock pulse.

So there it is. I have designed state table after state table and I cannot find the correct logic to implement this counter to save my life. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 

mik3

Joined Feb 4, 2008
4,843
Convert your state tables to a truth table ,then make K-maps for each of your outputs and find the simplest SOP or POS solution.
 

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Mearyk81

Joined May 31, 2008
3
I must be utterly stupid because I don't understand any of this. And Caveman, I misrepresented the numbering system. It should probably look more like this:

0000 - 0010 - 0100 - 0110 - 0000
1111 - 1101 - 1011 - 1001 - 1111

The way in which it is counting is dependent on the X input.

To Mik:

I have converted my state table to a truth table but maybe I am doing it wrong. Let me see if I can explain how it looks.
HTML:
X  Current State        Next State                 DFF1      DFF2     DFF3
0  000                     010                      0          1        0
0  010                     100                      1          0        0
0  100                     110                      1          1        0
0  110                     000                      0          0        0
1  111                     101                      1          0        1
1  101                     011                      0          1        1
1  011                     001                      0          0        1
1  001                     111                      1          1        1
0  111                     000                      0          0        0
0  101                     110                      1          1        0
0  011                     100                      1          0        0
0  001                     010                      0          1        0
1  000                     111                      1          1        1
1  010                     001                      0          0        1
1  100                     011                      0          1        1
1  110                     101                      1          0        1
Is that correct so far?
 

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Mearyk81

Joined May 31, 2008
3
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I finally got it!! Thank you so much for the replies. It definitely kicked my mind into overdrive and something just clicked.
 
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