This chapter provides an overview of the various design methods available for the realisation of digital logic circuits used in signal processing with particular emphasis on silicon structures. The traditional methods of designing logic systems by deriving an optimum interconnection of basic logic modules (such as the SN74 series) using a mix of intuitive and theoretical techniques are no longer applicable to today's technol ogy. The major reason for this lies in the complexity of the systems which we are now capable of designing and the need to realise these designs in terms of integrated circuit technology designing in silicon.

Inspec keywords: integrated circuit design; silicon; elemental semiconductors; integrated circuit interconnections; logic circuits

Other keywords: logic module interconnection; integrated circuit technology; digital logic circuit design method; signal processing; Si

Subjects: Logic circuits