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• Clock Domain Crossing: When the data is crossing from slower(Source Clock) clock to faster clock(destination clock) which technique can be used?
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• Why will the second flop go into meta stable state in the first place? If we reset the first flop, the data will be 0 , so will the second flop not just capture the 0 though it’s not reset?
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• What happens when CDC is between two synchronous clock domain(ex- clk1 and clk2= clk1/2)? Can there be violations?
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  We discuss assertions for asynchronous interfaces, how asynchronous master-slave protocol assertions can be written, debugged and complex protocols can be ...
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  This lecture discusses Mentor’s Questa 0in CDC solution, how to use questa cdc tool, what are different clock domain crossing ...
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  This lecture discusses important concepts for a good RTL design. The discussion is focused on blocking, non-blocking type of statements ...
• VLSI } 015 } Static Timing Analysis
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• VLSI } 014 } Latch-up & CMOS Technologies }
  This lecture presents latch-up phenomenon in SMOS circuits. What is latch-up, what are typical methods to mitigate latch-up and layout ...
• VLSI } 013 } Floor-planning tips }
  This lecture discusses some of the SoC floor-planning challenges and tips. A good floor-plan is the key to quality placement ...
• VLSI } 012 } Metastability }
  This lecture discusses concept of metastability. Synchronous designs suffer from this inherent problem associated with flip-flops, latches in the design. ...
• Economics } 012 } Economics Growth } GDP } Business Cycle }
  This lecture discusses economics growth, GDP, and business cycle. Economics fluctuations in outputs cause business cycle. If we plot GDP ...
• VLSI } 011 } Clock Domain Crossing } Multi Voltage Domains }
  This lecture discusses multi voltage domain crossings. Now a days integrated circuits are no longer simple circuits running on one ...
• Algorithms } 045 } Ant Colony Optimization } Technique
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• VLSI } 010 } Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) }
  This lecture discusses reset domain crossing (RDC) digital design techniques. Reset trees are similar to clock trees and resets crossings ...
• VLSI } 009 } Clock Domain Crossings } FIFO }
  This lecture extends the discussion on clock domain crossings. In this lecture design techniques for multi-bit clock crossings have been ...
• Algorithms } 044 } Ant Colony Optimization } Introduction }
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• Turorials } Matlab | Octave } quick overview }
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• Software Engineering } 007 } Agile versus Spiral }
  This lecture discusses key ideas of agile framework and its differences with traditional waterfall and spiral software development methodologies. Waterfall model ...
• VLSI } 008 } Antenna Effects }
  This lecture discusses concept of antenna effect in vlsi physical design. A typical chip manufacturing steps discussed with the design ...
• Algorithms } 043 } Genetic Algorithms }
  This lecture discusses basic principles of Genetic Algorithms, a class of evolutionary computational algorithms. Genetic algorithms are based on the ...
• Algorithms } 042 } Monte-Carlo Methods }
  This lecture discusses basic principles of Monte-Carlo methods, a class of computational algorithms. A simple example of estimating value of ...
• VLSI } 007 } Logic Gates using Multiplexers }
  This lecture discusses multiplexers and logic gates. How to design logic gates using 2:1 multiplexers? Multiplexers are considered universal logic. One ...
• Algorithms } 04 } Bags, Queues, and Stacks }
  This lecture covers very basic concepts about bags, stacks and queues in nutshell. You may have known these concepts already. ...
• Algorithms } 040 } Computational Geometry }
  This lecture introduces computational geometry and basic algorithms for finding line segments. Computational geometry has applications in many areas: robotics, ...
• Algorithms } 039 } String Matching } Knuth-Morris-Pratt }
  This lecture discusses Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching algorithm. Click above and Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback ...
• Algorithms } 038 } String Matching } Finite Automata }
  This lecture discusses string matching problem and finite automation based string matcher algorithm. Click above and Leprofesseur } ...
• Algorithms } 037 } String Matching }
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• VLSI } 006 } Timing }
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• Algorithms } 036 } Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) }
  This lecture discusses Euclid’s algorithm for finding greatest common divisor. Extended Euclid’s algorithm has also been discussed. ...
• Algorithms } 035 } Linear Programming } Simplex Algorithm }
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• Algorithms } 034 } Solving Linear Equations }
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