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Verilog and VHDL generally use more complex logic than the four-value logic system, with various strengths of logic zero and one so that weak effects such as pull-up resistors and weedy pass transistors can be modelled.

This enables a net-resolution function to be applied when a net is driven by more than one source. For instance, an equal drive-strength one and zero will resolve to an X but the stronger will win when strengths are not matched.

Pass transistor multiplexor compared with an active path multiplexor that needs greater silicon area, especially when the control inverter is amortised over a word.

The pass transistor is a cheap (in area terms) and efficient (in delay terms) form of programmable wiring, but it does not amplify the signal.


29: (C) 2008-18, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.