Synchronous Logic Circuits: Modeling and Optimization

This lecture covers synchronous logic circuits, including interconnection of combinational logic gates and synchronous delay elements. It explains modeling in hardware languages, state-based and structural models, and state minimization for completely-specified and incompletely-specified finite-state machines. The instructor discusses optimization techniques, such as state encoding and retiming, and the formal finite-state machine model. Examples illustrate state minimization processes and compatibility implications. The lecture concludes with discussions on maximum compatibility classes, prime compatibility classes, and state encoding for area optimization in finite-state machines.