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13 years ago

Ring oscillator design issue

Hello i designed a ring oscillator (VHDL) with an up-counter to display its output. The ring oscillators' (80 inverters) output feeds into the clock input to the up-counter and the counter ...
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12 years ago

Checked the Netlist viewer, not too sure if the compiler optimized the design. Attached is the code for the ring oscillator and the netlist viewer snapshot.

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I presume that you coded the inverter chain in a way that keeps it during design optimization. The post synthesis netlist viewer can tell.

clock divider, howz dat done???

Secondly you'll probably want to implement a clock divider.

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