Overview of digital logic design. Implementation technologies, timing in combinational and sequential circuits, EDA tools, basic arithmetic units, introduction to simulation and synthesis using ...

Finite State Machines (FSMs) have long been a cornerstone of digital system design, and continuing advancements in logic synthesis have enabled increasingly optimised implementations.

The paper presents an outline of a simple synthesis method of energy-efficient FSMs. The idea consists in using local clock gating to selectively block the clock signal, if no transition of a state of ...

Delay computation for combinational logic circuits: theory and algorithms , (with S. Devadas and K. Keutzer), IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Nov. 1991. A synthesis-based test ...

2.1 Clocks gated by combinational logic In case the clock is gated by a combinational logic then an override should be added using a shift/test mode signal for ensuring proper shift & capture clock ...

Some synthesis tools can give you early estimates of circuit performance well before even a medium-effort optimization can be completed. Click here to download the PDF version of this entire article.

Firstly, we present the innovative Flip-lock, a novel approach that utilizes flip-flops along logic gates to prevent synthesis tools’ structural leakages. As this is the first work that incorporates ...

VHDL and Verilog are hardware description languages, used to describe and define logic circuits. They’re typically used to design ASICs and to program FPGAs, essentially using software to def… ...