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The understanding of the digital design elements and their role in the design of the digital system is especially important to the logic designers, system design engineers, RTL design engineers and even to the ASIC/FPGA design engineers. There are many evolutions in the digital design during the past century, and the main objective of this book is to have a discussion on the important design techniques useful in the digital design. This book describes digital design techniques with exercises. The concepts and exercises discussed are useful to design digital logic from a set of given specifications. Looking at current trends of miniaturization, the contents provide practical information on the issues in digital design and various design optimization and performance improvement techniques at logic level. The book explains how to design using digital logic elements and how to improve design performance. The book also covers data and control path design strategies, architecture design strategies, multiple clock domain design and exercises , low-power design strategies and solutions at the architecture and logic-design level. The book covers 60 exercises with solutions and will be useful to engineers during the architecture and logic design phase. The contents of this book prove useful to hardware engineers, logic design engineers, students, professionals and hobbyists looking to learn and use the digital design techniques during various phases of design.
If we consider the decade of 80s, then we have witnessed migration of EDA tool flow from the schematic entry to the hardware description language (HDL) during 1984-1985. Most of the EDA tool companies evolved the algorithms using the Verilog and VHDL languages to carry out the design and implementation. Even we have witnessed few PLD-based designs and use of FPGA tools during that decade. In such scenarios, the book is useful to understand various design techniques from basics to complex designs. How to sketch the design architecture and micro-architecture for the design and how to use the advanced digital design techniques is also discussed in this book