help with pipelining counters

[kcinimod]

hi all, would it be more efficient to pipeline 4 counters, one for the ones, one for the tens, one for the hundreds and one for the thousands instead of having just one counter count from 1 to 10000 ?

 

[kpsr]

Hello kcinimod,
What ever you got an idea is good for design like a digital clock,
Example if we use a one counter we have to say time is 70 sec it is some what not good
if we use two counters one for sec and one for min then we can say 1 min 10 sec its good.
Both are good only based on our requirement we have to choose.
comes to our problem to count 10000 ya right now see what is h/w required 5 counters 5 comparators and reset mux.
buts to count 10000 1 counter and 1 comparator is enough

what ever the application based we have to select the type as pipeline or normal counter.

In real time less hardware is preferable because less hardware leads to less chip size.