Engineering Digital Design

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of Kohavi, McCluskey, Nelson et al., Tinder, Unger, and Yarbrough are the exceptions. All

five of these texts cover the subject to one extent or another, but with different emphases.

However, based on the subject as it is presented in this text, the texts of Nelson et al. and

Tinder are the two recommended here for further reading. These two texts cover the use

of both data-triggered T flip-flops and basic cells as memory elements in the design of

pulse mode FSMs. Texts by Unger and Yarbrough tend to emphasize the use of basic cells.

Unger provides a good discussion of the delay element requirements in the use of basic cell

memory elements and is recommended for further reading. The text of McCluskey, on the

other hand, provides a broadened ...