Practice Goal (4.5.1) - ASIC Design Flow - Gate-Level Synthesis & First Look at Timing
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Practice - Goal - 4.5.1

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does HDL stand for?

💡 Hint: It's related to coding for circuits.

Question 2 Easy

Name a common synthesis tool used in chip design.

💡 Hint: Think of professional design software.

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Question 1

What does the acronym HDL stand for?

High Data Language
Hardware Description Language
Hardware Design Logic

💡 Hint: It's a language used for designing circuits.

Question 2

True or False: STA is used to verify the timing of digital circuits.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the purpose of timing checks.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

You are asked to design a circuit that performs addition with two 4-bit numbers. Write a short Verilog code snippet for this circuit and discuss how synthesis would create a netlist from it.

💡 Hint: Think of how each operation translates to basic gates.

Challenge 2 Hard

Analyze the importance of slack in STA. Discuss how negative slack impacts circuit reliability and performance.

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when data arrives too late.

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