ECE 558 Introduction to VLSI Design

ECE 658 (NTU IC740-A) VLSI Design Principles

Lecture 18 (Fall 2006)  

Datapath design

• Tri-states
• Adders
• Critical paths
• Carry select
• Carry look-ahead
• Data-path layouts
• http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/arith/simulator

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• p. 419 and 420 in textbook

• Multipliers

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Coming up in next lecture:

• More Datapath Design: Multiplier and Low-power