FINAL PROJECT

Víctor Emmanuel García Ruvalcaba, David Alejandro Hernández Ríos Alexis Mejía Luna,
Diana Santillana Fernández.
Students, UAA.

Abstract - This Project is about making a time passed. Eugene Fitch of New York
digital clock, using the Cool Runner patented the clock design in 1903.
board to display it.
The first patent for a digital alarm clock
was presented by Protzmann in 1956 in
I. INTRODUCTION the United States and in 1972, Hamilton
produced the first digital wristwatch with
What we did for this project was a digital a LED display, and it was mass-produced.
clock that displays hours and minutes of a
whole day. The display is four digits and 7
segments that come included in the
breadboard selected for it.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW

Humankind has always been interested on

measuring time. This began with very
simple devices as the sundials
 4 DIGITS 7 SEGMENTS
Then, for a long time a great variety of DISPLAY
analog clocks had been used in daily life.
The seven segments display is a way to
Until an Austrian engineer named Josef
represent numbers in electronic
Pallweber created his "jump-hour"
components. It is composed by seven
mechanism in 1883. By 1885 it was
segments that can be turned on and off
already on the market in pocket watches.
individually. Each of the segments has the
The principles of Pallweber were used up
shape of a small line. Although externally
to the 1920’s. As this original inventor
its shape differs considerably from a
didn't have a watch brand at the time, his
typical led, they are internally made by a
name was not so well known all around the
series of led with determined internal
world.
connections, strategically located to form
a number “8”.
By 1904 Plato clocks were introduced in
the St. Louis World Fair. They consisted
of a glass cylinder with a column inside,
which had small digital cards with
numbers printed on them and flipped as
  COOL RUNNER 2 Finally, we connected the board to the
computer in order to set the code and we
It is a complete USB-powered circuit could see our clock working.
development platform for Xilinx's
CoolRunner-II CPLD. The board includes
highly efficient power supplies, a
programmable oscillator, several I/O
devices, and a USB2 port for board power
and CPLD programming. The board also
includes five expansion connectors that
make 64 CPLD signals available to
external circuits.

III. STEPS
For this Project it was necessary for us to
decide first what to do. So to begin with
we made a brainstorming and considering
digital clocks are very useful in our lives
and can be made with simple materials, we
decided to make it.
After that, we made the Xilinx code and
set the pins.
IV. CONCLUSION
Through this Project our team was able to
use what we have learned in class during
this semester; from how to use the Xilinx
programming and creating a code to know
how to connect and use two different types
of boards. Even though we didn’t have
enough experience it was possible for us to
make this project using what we had been
practicing the whole semester.
V. REFERENCES
http://www.geekbotelectronics.com/produc
to/display-7-segmentos-de-4-digitos/
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/
programmable-logic/coolrunner-ii/start
https://blog.onlineclock.net/history-of-
digital-clocks-watches/

https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A1006534