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The last two decades have witnessed the overhauling growth in microelectronics and it has emerged as a major new technological force shaping our everyday lives. Apart from the ubiquitous penetration in the social life, the microelectronics is going though a paradigm shift from the VLSI to personal computers, mobile devices and finally converging to single-chip solutions embedded with the intelligence...
Sequential logic is a type of logic circuit whose output is characterized by not only with the present input but also on the history of the input. The memory aspect of the sequential circuits sometimes poses challenges for the designers. Synchronous circuits are one of the major subclasses of the sequential domain characterized by output transition only with reference to the clock. In general the...
Combinational logic system is characterized by the basic property that the Outputs being the function only of the current combination of inputs. Thus it exhibits memory less or stateless attributes as well as implies acyclic connection of the primitives. Combinational circuits are known for the ease of debugging as the backtracing through them is uncomplicated owing to the unidirectional nature of...
The electronics industry is an amazingly fast changing and vigorous environment, driven by everlasting demand for innovation and technological advancement. As electronic manufacturers need to develop affluent features that will set apart new products, devices attain progressively more functions and head towards the complexity beating the Moor's law. These have resulted in narrow market windows and...
The synergy of FPGA and soft processor cores has the budding potential to allow the integration SoC into a single FPGA chip. Embedded engineers often fight with the confront of improving performance. Discrete processors a.k.a. hard processors pose the following most striking drawbacks when it comes to embedding them for a particular application: Fixed selection of peripherals, most of them remain...
According to the SIA Technology Roadmap, by the end of this decade the semiconductor industry will manufacture chips with four billion transistors, thousands of pins, and clock speeds of 10 GHz. In order to increase design productivity, a new design flow has recently emerged, based on the reuse of portable IP cores. An IP core is a block of logic or data that is used with a field programmable gate...
Established C-based design flows now provide a rapid, unproblematic design flow from algorithms to FPGA implementation. With the apt coding styles, methodology and design flow, SoC designers can get tangible results from their abstract code. The motivations behind the usage of C based paradigm are ease in SOC design and testing, possibility of working at varying levels of abstraction, effective hardware/software...
As integrated circuit technologies fight to meet and overcome the Moore's law, the quest towards higher performance, greater densities, increasing system complexity and on the top of all, shrinking market window necessities innovation in design methodology. The literature survey reveals that the current, popular design approach, which generally consists of top-down synthesis, software simulation and...
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