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12 years ago

The explanation of gray code “quadrant” technique

Many articles discuss about the benefits of using gray counter to design a FIFO. One of the advantage is we can use the quadrant coding method to determine the FIFO empty and full condition. ...
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12 years ago

Thanks Kaz for the explanation. It's help :)

I understand that gray counter is being used is because only 1 bit change at once time.

Another question is if i insist to use binary counter in my FIFO implementation and i manage to close all the timing through STA.

Does this indicate it is safe to use binary counter? :p