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The Art of Hardware Architecture

Design Methods and Techniques for Digital Circuits

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Mohit Arora

    1. Freescale Semiconductor, Faridabad, India

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  • Describes techniques to help IP designers get it right the first time, creating designs optimized in terms of power, area and performance
  • Focuses on practical aspects of chip design and minimizes theory
  • Covers chip design in a consistent way, starting with basics and gradually developing advanced concepts, such as electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) design techniques and low-power design techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The World of Metastability

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    Pages 1-10

  3. Clocks and Resets

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    Pages 11-49

  4. Handling Multiple Clocks

    • Mohit Arora
    Pages 51-86

  5. Clock Dividers

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    Pages 87-93

  6. Low Power Design

    • Mohit Arora
    Pages 95-128

  7. The Art of Pipelining

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    Pages 129-153

  8. Handling Endianness

    • Mohit Arora
    Pages 155-168

  9. Deboucing Techniques

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    Pages 169-182

  10. Design Guidelines for EMC Performance

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    Pages 183-214

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-221
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About this book

This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in order to design an optimized and robust digital circuit to solve a problem. The techniques and methodologies described can serve as a bridge between specifications that are known to the designer and RTL code that is final outcome, reducing significantly the time it takes to convert initial ideas and concepts into right-first-time silicon.  Coverage focuses on real problems rather than theoretical concepts, with an emphasis on design techniques across various aspects of chip-design. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Freescale Semiconductor, Faridabad, India

    Mohit Arora

About the author

Mohit Arora is a Senior Systems Engineer with Freescale Semiconductor. Since joining Freescale in 2005, he has been responsible for IP/SoC Architecture and has led the design and development of various SoCs for multimarket segment. As a systems engineer, he has been involved in product definition and writing specifications, MCU/MPU-based products for the mid-high end industrial and consumer market space. Prior to joining Freescale, he worked for Agilent Technologies, ST Microelectronics and DCM Technologies as a design engineer and lead, focused on printing ASICs, USB2.0 PHY, PCI-Express, Infiniband and Serial ATA protocols.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), India, in 2000, has more than 30 publications in international magazine and holds a patent on serial links.

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