Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
EDN

Getting the most out of RTL logic synthesis

As chip designers, we take register-transfer-level logical synthesis for granted today. And that's a good thing. That means that we are all comfortable with it. I remember back in the early '90s when ...
Electronic Design

Reduce Power in Chip Designs with Sequential Clock Gating

Clock gating is one of the most frequently used techniques in RTL to reduce dynamic power consumption without affecting the functionality of the design. One method involves inserting gating conditions ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW Security: Flip-Flops Along Logic Gates to Prevent Synthesis Tools’ Structural Leakages (TU Dresden, Ruhr Univ. Bochum)

A new technical paper titled “Flip-Lock: A Flip-Flop-Based Logic Locking Technique for Thwarting ML-based and Algorithmic Structural Attacks” was published by researchers at TU Dresden and Ruhr ...
Electronic Design

Synthesis Attacks The Abstract

HARDWARE DESIGN is a process of refining an idea from a highly abstract form to a concrete, physical implementation. Along the way, a design is continually transformed from a given state of ...