Compare cost/performance ratios for the two circuits you designed in 4.5.1 and 4.5.2. For this problem, performance of a circuit is the inverse of the time needed to perform a 32-bit operation.

Problem 4.5.1

Design a circuit with 1-bit data inputs and a 1-bit data output that accomplishes this operation serially, starting with the least-significant bit. In a serial implementation, the circuit is processing input operands bit by bit, generating output bits one by one. For example, a serial AND circuit is simply an AND gate; in cycle N we give it the Nth bit from each of the operands and we get the Nth bit of the result. In addition to data inputs, the circuit has a Clk (clock) input and a "Start" input that is set to 1 only in the very first cycle of the operation. In your design, you can use D Flip-Flops and NOT, AND, OR, and XOR gates.

Problem 4.5.2

Repeat 4.5.1, but now design a circuit that accomplishes this operation 2 bits at a time.

In the rest of this exercise, we assume that the following basic digital logic elements are available, and that their latency and cost are as follows:

The time given for a D-element is its setup time. The data input of a lip-lop must have the correct value one setup-time before the clock edge (end of clock cycle) that stores that value into the lip-lop.

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a. b. NOT AND Latency Cost Latency Cost Latency Cost 10ps 2 12ps 4 50ps 1 90ps 2 12ps 100ps 4 OR 2 XOR Latency Cost 14ps 120ps 6 3 D-Element Latency Cost 30ps 10 160ps 2