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

Design methodologies for combinational and sequential logic circuits and systems. Introduction to simulation and synthesis tools using Hardware Description Language (HDL). CMOS circuit structure and ...

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 ...

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.