Principles of VLSI RTL Design - A Practical Guide

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle to issues related to testability, data synchronization across clock domains, synthesizability, power consumption, routability, etc., all which are a function of the way the RTL was originally written. Readers will benefit from a highly practical approach to the fundamentals of these topics, and will be given clear guidance regarding necessary safeguards to observe during RTL design.

List of contents

Introduction to RTL Designs; Ensuring RTL Intent; Static Timing Analysis (STA); Clock Domain Crossing (CDC); Power; Design for Test; Timing Exceptions; Congestion; Conclusions.

Summary

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle to issues related to testability, data synchronization across clock domains, synthesizability, power consumption, routability, etc., all which are a function of the way the RTL was originally written.   Readers will benefit from a highly practical approach to the fundamentals of these topics, and will be given clear guidance regarding necessary safeguards to observe during RTL design.

Product details

• Authors: Sanja Churiwala, Sanjay Churiwala, Sapan Garg
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781489995452
• ISBN: 978-1-4899-9545-2
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 11 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 314 g
• Illustrations: XV, 182 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), engineering, Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Computer-aided engineering, Electronic circuits, Electronic Circuits and Systems