Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Fourth Edition

8Architecture Design

Highlights:

Hardware description languages (HDLs).Register-transfer design.Pipelining.High-level synthesis.Low-power architectures.Architecture testing.Design methodologies.

A scheduled and bound data flow graph (Example 8-2).

8.1 Introduction

A good digital system design is more than a jumble of components. You must design an architecture that executes the desired function and that meets area, performance, and testability constraints. Simply executing the specified function is the easy part—there are many candidate architectures that will execute almost any function. What makes chip ...