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Innovative Calendar Alarm with Sydney Tang

This calendar alarm app by Sydney Tang features eight alarm events, direct data entry, and a creative design. Top-level views, control features, and resource utilization make it user-friendly. The app tracks time and date efficiently using cascaded counters and a Julian calendar. Enhancements include upgraded calendars, weekday auto-select, and more event types with user-entered descriptions.

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Innovative Calendar Alarm with Sydney Tang

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  1. The Calendar Alarm Sydney Tang Su-tarn Lim Chen-song Qin

  2. Overview • Introduction • Demo • Design • Enhancements

  3. Key Features • View the time and date, including the weekday • Program up to eight alarm events • Enter data directly

  4. Design Overview • Top-level view • Control • Time and Date • Keypad • Display • Resource utilization

  5. Top-level view

  6. Control • Contains 3 state machines • User interface • LCD state • LCD handshaking • Manages memory for event programming • Keeps track of time and date

  7. Time and Date • Implemented by cascaded counters • Month counter has a variable maximum value • Uses Julian Calendar

  8. Keypad state machine

  9. LCD state machine

  10. Resource Utilization • Total logic cell usage > 95% • Lessons learned: • The cost of UI • Data-entry error checking: 6-7% • Showing variable text: 14% • Formatting the display: 10-20% • The value of modularity

  11. Enhancements • Upgrade from Julian to Gregorian Calendar • Auto-select weekday • Add more types of events • once only • yearly • daily • Allow user-entered event descriptions

  12. Questions?

  13. Getting the day of the week • Lookup table • 400 elements for Gregorian • 28 elements for Julian • Nasty formula* • W = (k + floor(2.6m - 0.2) - 2C + Y + floor(Y/4) + floor(C/4)) mod 7 • Let the user supply it *source: sci.math FAQ

  14. Calendar schemes Which of these are leap years? • 1900 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2100 • 2400 • It depends on the Calendar you use

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