what are glitches in digital logic circuits

[saudrehman]

glitches digital logic

Can anybody explain clearly what are glitches and why do they occur in logic circuits?

 

[eecs4ever]

asch1hazshortj.pdf

A glitch happens sometimes as signals propagate through combinational logic.
Before reaching the final steady state value, sometimes, a wrong intermediate value shows up at the output during the settling phase. This is called a glitch.

The reason why it happens is because of the different signal paths have different delays. So when one input reaches the input of a gate while the other input is delayed, the wrong output may occur. The output signal will be corrected once all of the correct input has propagated through.


I've attached a simple diagram.
In the picture below, because of the inverter delay, the AND gate sees both of its input high for a short time. This is when the glitch happens.

for a more detailed description, see below:
https://www.doe.carleton.ca/~jknight/97.267/267_04W/Asch1HazShortJ.pdf

Good luck!

 

[Santoshalagawadi]

glitch in digital logic

gleaches are unwanted signals that occur in the circuit

the gleaches can observed in flipflops

gleach will damage the circuit at times.

 

[carrot]

Hi

Suppose you have a combinational logic and if assume having a unit gate delay for each of them, and if the path taken from input to output say, 1st path is having 2 gates and 2nd path is having 2 gates, and if the inputs is given to it, then definitely because of an additional gate in the second path, there exists a glitch in the circuit.

But if you consider the gate has zero delay(unrealistic), then the problem of glitches does not exit