Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Fourth Edition

6Subsystem Design

Highlights:

Pipelines and data paths.Adders.Multipliers.Memory.PLAs.FPGAs.Image sensors.Buses and networks-on-chips.Standards for IP.

Structure of an array multiplier (Figure 6-12).

6.1 Introduction

chips and their subsystems

Most chips are built from a collection of subsystems: adders, register files, state machines, etc. Of course, to do a good job of designing a chip, we must be able to properly design each of the major components. Studying individual subsystems is also a useful prelude to the study of complete chips because a single component is a focused design problem. When designing ...