Title :
Fast up/down counters using identical cascaded modules
Author :
Jones, Edwin V. ; Bi, Guoan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
An extendible up/down counter configuration which provides for count-limit control is described. Cascaded regular structures composed of identical circuit modules are used. The design is well suited, for example, to high-speed line-code conversion and transmission-error monitoring.<>
Keywords :
cascade networks; counting circuits; modules; count-limit control; extendible up/down counter configuration; high-speed line-code conversion; identical cascaded modules; transmission-error monitoring; Clocks; Complexity theory; Counting circuits; Limiting; Logic; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Pipeline processing; Shift registers; Signal processing;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
