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This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in order to design an optimized and robust digital circuit to solve a problem. The techniques and methodologies described can serve as a bridge between spec

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Mohit Arora

4HE!RTOF(ARDWARE !RCHITECTURE Design Methods and Techniques for Digital Circuits

Mohit Arora Freescale Semiconductor Faridabad India [email protected]

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This book is dedicated to my wife Pooja and my daughter Prisha.

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Preface

I started my Industry career in year 2000 in the field of Chip Design. My work involved lot of research that gave me opportunity to write technical papers, participate in various conferences and share practical experiences. During this journey I got lot of positive feedback on my publications. Readers have often asked me forcing me to think if I should write a book compiling all the practical experiences. The book’s aim is to highlight all the complex issues, tasks and skills that must be mastered by an IP designer to design an optimized and robust digital circuit to solve a problem. The techniques and methodologies prescribed in the book, if properly employed, can significantly reduce the time it takes to convert initial ideas and concepts into right-first-time silicon. The book is intended for a wide audience. Though it may be used in an undergraduate or graduate course, book is mainly intended for those in semiconductor industries who are directly involved with chip design and requires deeper understand of the subject. This book is distinguished from others by its primary focus on real problems rather than theoretical concepts with its emphasis on design techniques across various aspects of chip-design. The book covers aspects of chip design in a consistent way, starting with basic concepts in Chap. 1 and gradually increasing the depth to reach advanced concepts, such as EMC design techniques or sophisticated low power techniques like DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency scaling). Chapter 1 covers “metastability” to help user understand more clearly the issues related to metastability, how it can be quantified and necessary techniques to minimize its effort. Chapter 2 covers general set of recommendations around “clocks and resets” intended for use by designers while designing a block or Intellectual Property (IP). The guidelines are