Digital ICs Technical Articles

This article will discuss design practices that ensure better thermal management, including some common methods for removing excess heat from a PCB....

This article describes a simple procedure that helps you to introduce a wide variety of signals and mathematical functions into your microcontroller projects....

You can simplify MCU development if you make sure that your firmware has access to a numerical value that corresponds to the processor frequency....

This article will discuss the details of interfacing a basic 16x2 LCD module with an FPGA.

This article will discuss the details of interfacing a basic 16x2 LCD module with an FPGA.

This article focuses on using Verilog to describe synchronous sequential circuits.

This article takes a detailed look at the way in which pass-transistor logic degrades a signal and how this signal degradation can be remedied....

This article discusses the use of pass-transistor configurations in the design of gated latches.

This article discusses the efficient multiplexers that can be created by using MOSFETs in a pass-transistor configuration.

This article presents efficient, pass-transistor-based implementations of important digital functionality.

The various “endian” terms may sound a bit odd, but the underlying concept is straightforward. If you’re not yet an endian expert, read on!...

This article explores an alternative, and in some cases advantageous, approach to MOSFET-based implementation of digital logic functions....

This article will discuss the Xilinx Period timing constraint that allows us to describe the characteristics of the clock signal that will be used with an FPGA design....

This article discusses how to interpret and specify bandwidth in systems that involve data transmission and digital processing.

This article will explain some of the most important settings and design parameters for the Xilinx FFT IP core and function as a basic walkthrough of the Fast Fourier Transform interface....

This article will discuss a well-known technique called “double flopping” to transfer a single-bit control signal between two clock domains....

This article will review the common FPGA resources that allow us to efficiently generate and distribute clock signals throughout a system....

This article will try to develop a better insight into wave reflection that can occur when driving a relatively long wire with a fast logic gate....

This article explores some important details related to the design and functionality of processors.