Among the many verification challenges confronting system-on-chip designers these days, clock domain crossings (CDCs) rank near the top in difficulty. Two particularly troublesome CDC-related issues ...

Synchronous interfaces involve a single clock domain and are relatively easy to design. However, at times, it is advantageous and necessary to have an asynchronous interface between peripherals for ...

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...

Lack of coordination between asynchronous resets and synchronous logic clocks leads to intermittent failures on power up. In this series of articles, we discuss the requirements and challenges of ...

As chip designs grow in complexity and face tighter power constraints, depending on a single clock domain is no longer practical. Instead, most modern chips incorporate as many as dozens or even ...