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COMP_ENG 303: Advanced Digital Design

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

COMP_ENG 203: Intro to Computer Engineering

Overview of computer engineering design. Number systems and Boolean algebra. Logic gates. Design of combinational circuits and simplification. Decoders, multiplexors, adders. Sequential logic and flip ...
EDN

Using synthesis in the analog-design flow

Analog-synthesis tools provide great potential for speeding the design process for analog circuits. This capability is especially important in mixed-signal-system-on-chip design, in which the analog ...
Design-Reuse

Latches and timing closure: a mixed bag

Digital blocks contain combinational and sequential circuits. Sequential circuits are the storage cells with outputs that reflect the past sequence of their input values, while output of the ...
EDN

Book excerpt: High-level synthesis blue book – part4

The promise of high-level synthesis (HLS) is a powerful one: the ability to generate production-quality register transfer level (RTL) implementations from high-level specification. In other words, HLS ...
Electronic Design

Reduce Power in Chip Designs with Sequential Clock Gating

Clock gating is one of the most frequently used techniques in RTL to reduce dynamic power consumption without affecting the functionality of the design. One method involves inserting gating conditions ...