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Traffic Light

This document describes a student project to build a traffic light simulator circuit with three modes: blinking red and yellow, solid red, and standard traffic light operation. It explains the components used, including logic gates, binary numbers, comparators, clocks, and flip-flops. The circuit uses chained D and JK flip-flops to track states and a counter to time the light changes, producing the three traffic light modes.

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Traffic Light

This document describes a student project to build a traffic light simulator circuit with three modes: blinking red and yellow, solid red, and standard traffic light operation. It explains the components used, including logic gates, binary numbers, comparators, clocks, and flip-flops. The circuit uses chained D and JK flip-flops to track states and a counter to time the light changes, producing the three traffic light modes.

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Traffic Light Final Project

By Ali El Moselhy,
Sandy Shan,
and Peter He
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is a Circuit?
- What are Logic Gates?
- What are Binary Numbers?
- What is a Comparator?
- What is a Clock?
- What are Flip-Flops?
- Putting it all together…
Introduction
- Our task was to construct a traffic light simulator which operated in three
different modes:
- Blinking red and yellow
- Solid red
- Standard operation (green, yellow and red)
- Here is a picture of the final circuit:

- This is quite complicated!


- Let’s break it down step by step…
What is a Circuit?
- Circuits use a difference in voltage to extract work.
- Electricity moves from high to low voltages, and that movement allows us to do ‘things’
- A Light Emitting Diode (LED) glows when electricity runs through it.

- When referring to circuits:


- “HIGH” = “1” = “high potential” = “on”
- “LOW” = “0” = “low potential” = “off”
What are Logic Gates?
- Logic Gates are the foundation of all modern circuits.
- Logic Gates take in multiple inputs, and output a single HIGH or LOW signal.
- There are 7 main types of logic gates:
- Inverter
- AND
- OR
- XOR
- NAND
- NOR
- XNOR
- We used 4 of these gate types.
AND gates
- AND gates output HIGH if both inputs are HIGH. Otherwise, they output
LOW:

A B X

0 0 0

0 1 0

1 0 0

1 1 1
OR gates
- OR gates output HIGH if any input is HIGH. Otherwise, they output LOW:

A B X

0 0 0

0 1 1

1 0 1

1 1 1
XOR gates
- XOR gates output a HIGH if ONLY ONE input is HIGH. Otherwise, they output
LOW:

A B X

0 0 0

0 1 1

1 0 1

1 1 0
NOR gates
- NOR gates negate the output of an OR gate. They output HIGH when all
inputs are 0. Otherwise, they output LOW:

A B X

0 0 1

0 1 0

1 0 0

1 1 0
Binary Numbers
- Binary numbers are numbers stored in a format that the computer can
understand:
- How can we differentiate between 0, 1, 2, … 8, 9? We can’t…
- We DO have values of either 0 or 1, so we can use a system of binary numbers.
- Each place value in a binary number represents a power of two:

1101 = 1 + 4 + 8 = 13
4th place 1st place
value: 1*23 value: 1*20

3rd place 2nd place


value: 1*22 value: 0*21
What is a comparator?
- Some quick recall:
- An XOR gate only activates when the inputs are different e.g. 1 and 0, or 0
and 1.
- Therefore, if an XOR gate outputs 0, we know the two inputs must be the
same, either both 0’s or 1’s.
- With a NOR gate, we can use this feature to compare two binary numbers:
What is a clock?
- A clock is a device that outputs a waveform:
- Oscillating from HIGH to LOW and back to HIGH.

- Clock circuit:
What are Flip-Flops?
- Flip-flops are devices which act as basic memory - they can store a single bit
each.

- Two main types (that we used):


- J-K flip-flops - used in our counter.
- D-flip flops - used for general memory.

- Both types of Flip-Flops activate on a signal edge:


D Flip-Flop:
Pin Function

D Input Pin

Clock Triggers change of Q (output)

S Set Pin, sets Q = 1

Q Output

R Reset Pin, sets Q = 0


JK Flip-Flop:
Pin Function

J, K Input Pins

Clock Triggers change of Q (output)

Q Output

R Reset Pin, sets Q=0


JK Flip-Flop Behavior
- The behavior of JK flip-flops is quite complicated:

- The most useful thing to us is the behavior when both J and K are one: the
chip toggles back and forth between 0 and 1.
Counters
- Think of counting in binary:

0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000…

- We examine the 3rd digit.


- It only changes on the digits highlighted in blue, and each time before the change, the
preceding digits are 1 (highlighted in red)
- To be more precise, for any digit to change when counting in binary, all preceding digits need to
be 1’s.
- We can use this idea to build a counter which operates off of a clock.
Counters
- Here is a synchronous counter (clock signals are simultaneous between each
flip-flop):

- Each digit only changes (toggles) when every preceding digit is 1. (We read left
as the smallest digit, and right as the largest digit.)
- Connecting together the Reset inputs of each flip flop allows us to reset the
entire counter with a single input.
Chained D Flip-Flops
- We handle the ‘chosen’ states as follows:
- Initialize 3 chained D flip-flops in a 1-0-0 format, and connect a button to the
clock input of each:

This construction causes a HIGH signal to propagate through the flip flops each
time we hit the switch.
Streetlight Logic (First Two Cases)
- For the first case (solid red), we connect the output of the first D-flip flop (out
of the 3) to the two red lights.
- For the second case (blinking red and yellow), we used an AND gate to
connect the output of the second D flip-flop to the clock signal:
- Each time both the flip-flop signal is HIGH (the state is correct) and the clock is HIGH (creates
the blinking effect), the LEDs will glow.
Final Case Logic
- For the final case (standard street light operation), all our preceding work
comes in handy:
- We build another 4 chained D flip-flops, in order to track the ‘progress’ of the traffic light
(states 1, 2, 3, 4).
- We build a counter and connect it to two different comparators, one for a small number, and
one for a large number.
- We use AND gates to selectively reset the counter depending on the state
and the comparator output.
- We connect the reset signal
to the counter of the 4 D flip-flops:
Some Hand Waving…
- We hand wave some more complex details (reset input and exact gates), but
at this point, we have 4 (internal) states which light up according to schedule.
- Therefore, we can connect whichever lights we want to the flip-flops and have
them light up according to schedule.
- Final Circuit:

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