Art of Hardware Architecture

Mohit Arora is a Senior Systems Engineer with Freescale Semiconductor. Since joining Freescale in 2005, he has been responsible for IP/SoC Architecture and has led the design and development of various SoCs for multimarket segment. As a systems engineer, he has been involved in product definition and writing specifications, MCU/MPU-based products for the mid-high end industrial and consumer market space. Prior to joining Freescale, he worked for Agilent Technologies, ST Microelectronics and DCM Technologies as a design engineer and lead, focused on printing ASICs, USB2.0 PHY, PCI-Express, Infiniband and Serial ATA protocols.He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), India, in 2000, has more than 30 publications in international magazine and holds a patent on serial links.

• The World of Metastability.- Clocks and Reset.- Handling Multiple Clocks.- Clock Dividers.- Low Power Design.- The Art of Pipelining.- Handling Endianess.- Debouncing Techniques.- Design Guidelines for EMC Performance.- References.