Digital Clock with Altera FPGA

Introduction

The design has a clock and alarm. It includes memory blocks and counter systems.

A digital clock is a type of clock that displays the time digitally (i.e. in numerals or other symbols), as opposed to an analog clock, where the time is indicated by the positions of rotating hands.

Digital clocks are often associated with electronic drives, but the “digital” description refers only to the display, not to the drive mechanism. (Both analog and digital clocks can be driven either mechanically or electronically, but “clockwork” mechanisms with digital displays are rare.)

Digital clocks typically use the 50 or 60 hertz oscillation of AC power or a 32,768 hertz crystal oscillator as in a quartz clock to keep time. Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24-hour format; in the United States and a few other countries, a more commonly used hour sequence option is 12-hour format [1]. Emulations of analog-style faces often use an LCD screen, and these are also sometimes described as “digital”.

Basic Information

About Quartus II Altera Quartus II is a programmable logic device design software produced by Altera. Quartus II enables analysis and synthesis of HDL designs, which enables the developer to compile their designs, perform timing analysis, examine RTL diagrams, simulate a design's reaction to different response, and configure the target device with the programmer.
Quartus includes an implementation of VHDL and Verilog for hardware description, visual editing of logic circuits, and vector waveform simulation. Altera Boards can be programmed by Windows OS.

Assigned Task

Our main task is to create a digital clock using Altera Board, we have to incorporate an alarm and set the current time.

Presentation

References

[1] Wikipedia. (2015, March 12). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_adapter