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2.9 Summary
The most important concepts that we covered in this chapter are the following:
- The use of transistors as switches
- The difference between flip-flop and a latch
- The meaning of setup time and hold time
- Pipelines and latency
- The difference between datapath, standard-cell, and gate-array logic cells
- Strong and weak logic levels
- Pushing bubbles
- Ratio of logic
- Resistance per square of layers and their relative values in CMOS
- Design rules and l
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