Week 3 is an🚀 FPGA Engineering Challenge 🚀 You're designing a 4-bit counter using an FPGA. The counter increments on every rising clock edge and resets to zero when the 'reset' signal is asserted. Which of the following correctly describes how the reset should behave? A. The counter resets on the rising clock edge. B. The counter resets asynchronously when the reset signal is asserted. C. The counter resets synchronously on the next clock cycle when reset is asserted. D. The counter resets only when both reset and clock signals are high. 💡 Which one is correct and why? 🎯 Bonus Question (for discussion): What are the benefits of using FPGA-based counters in real-time systems compared to software-based implementations? Drop your answers and thoughts in the comments! 👇
C, and Fpga counter is more accurate then software’s
Bonus answer. FPGAs operate as massively paralleled. You can custom build your interface and have it do precisely the function you need with the processor only monitoring or doing basic configuration.
B since it doesn't mention the clock when resetting so it asynchronous.
B
C
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2wB, the clock gets reset asynchronously however it's preferred that it can be released synchronisely. Bonus, FPGA-based counters are much more accurate than software-based ones.