9.6  Summary

The important concepts that we covered in this chapter are:

• Schematic entry using a cell library
• Cells and cell instances, nets and ports
• Bus naming, vectored instances in datapath
• Hierarchy
• Editing cells
• PLD languages: ABEL, PALASM, and CUPL
• Logic minimization
• The functions of EDIF
• CFI representation of design information

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