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Six ways to improve speed of digital logic in IC design

When designing a chip, a designer needs to consider many tradeoffs before developing the logic. For example, if a chip is being developed for mobile applications, power becomes a very important factor ...
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Build a low-cost logic design trainer

When I was an engineering student, I was fascinated about such subjects as Analog electronics, Logic Design, Microcontrollers etc.I loved the time I spent in my college laboratories, but unfortunately ...
Electronic Design

Maximizing Hierarchical Design Throughput for Today’s Large Designs

Fig 1. As an example of today’s ASIC design complexity, IBM’s Cu-32 ASIC product offering delivers 2.9K raw gates per square millimeter. Such advanced process nodes enable SoC design teams to ...
Electronic Design

For Designers: Logic Nets in Transistor Cans (ED article from 1961)

March 29, 1961 - LOGICAL microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies. Heavy research and production is being pressed by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., ...