ABSTRACT

In digital logic design terminology, an event is a transition of a signal either from logic 0 to logic 1 or from logic 1 to logic 0. As a digital signal propagates through a transmission medium, the signal may become distorted, and interact with other nearby signals. The behavior of the signal can be examined in a similar fashion to a wavefront in traditional transmission line analysis. Data path elements provide a means of transferring data within the processor, providing intermediate storage, and performing arithmetic and logic operations. It is quite common for a computer program, such as a spreadsheet or video game, to have enormous run-time random access memory (RAM) requirements. In fact, it is often the case that computer programs on contemporary personal computers have run-time memory requirements that exceed the physical RAM in the machine by a factor of 10 or more.