Traffic Light System with Output to VGA Monitor

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Traffic Light System with Output to VGA Monitor

• Ed Camman
• Matthew Henry
• Indiana University and Purdue University at
  Indianapolis

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Motivation and Concept

• Motivation
• Opportunity
• Difficulty
• Concept
• Traffic Light sends appropriate color to VGA chip
  to be displayed on a monitor

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Main Topics

• Discussion of complete Circuit
• trafficLight to VGA to VGAcore
• Problems Encountered
• State Machines
• Understanding borrowed code, VHDL
• Future Improvements
• RAM Chip

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Traffic Light Simulation
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Conclusions

• Simple yet difficult
• Design approach helped
• Borrowing code hurt understanding