Circuit Timing

In your studies so far you have treated logic gates and circuits as instantaneous, which means they yield their result immediately after having received the inputs. However this is not the case in the real world, where circuits always have a non negligible propagation delay. What consequences does this have on the processor? In this chapter we will find out.

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Index

• Gates and Chips Operate with a Propagation Delay
• Propagation Delay Poses an Upper Limit to the Speed of RTL Circuits
• Keeping Track of the Dynamic Behaviour of RTL Circuits with Diagrams
• Introduction to the Pipelined Processor