Over the recent years post-silicon SoC validation has become a major bottleneck in IC design. Due restricted design cycle time and test bench limitations almost all the designs are taped-out with ...

In the previous installment, we talked about why flip flops are such an important part of digital design. We also looked at some latch circuits. This time, I want to look at some actual flip ...

Make all clocks and asynchronous resets come from chip pins during scan mode. Ensure that all scan elements on a scan chain are in the same clock domain. Know the requirements and limitations of your ...

As system-on-chip (SoC) designs evolve, they aren’t just getting bigger — they’re becoming more intricate. One of the trickiest challenges in this evolution lies in handling resets. Today’s ...

Now that we’ve introduced a JK flip-flop, let’s look at some circuits that we can create using it as the core element, including the T and D flip-flops. In my previous column, we started to look at ...