Practice - Find Potential Slowest Paths
Practice Questions
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What is a critical path?
💡 Hint: Think about how slow components affect the overall speed.
What do you measure along a suspected critical path?
💡 Hint: Look for the time taken for inputs to affect outputs.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What defines the critical path in a circuit?
💡 Hint: Remember what happens if signals take too long to propagate.
True or False: Optimizing the critical path can increase the maximum operating speed of the circuit.
💡 Hint: Think about circuit performance and speed.
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Challenge Problems
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Your circuit design has a critical path with several gates causing delays. Propose three specific strategies you might use to optimize the speed of this path.
💡 Hint: Think about what factors contribute most to the slowdown.
A signal travels through a series of gates, with delays measured at 2ns, 3ns, and 5ns. Identify the critical path and explain why it's critical.
💡 Hint: What happens to the circuit speed if one path is delayed?
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