An Investigation of Race Hazard Elimination in Digital Counter Circuits
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Abstract
Race hazards, which can lead to premature asynchronous resets or erroneous state transitions, occur when concurrent signals with different propagation delays arrive at the nodes of a combinational logic circuit. This paper investigates a modulo-13 counter centered on the SN74LS161N IC. A critical race hazard scenario is constructed in Multisim by intentionally introducing signal delays, and two common suppression strategies are evaluated: (1) connecting a parallel capacitor at the reset node to form an RC low-pass filter for analog pulse smoothing; and (2) using a 74ALS175M flip-flop to edge-register the outputs before the reset logic in a structured timing approach. Simulation results demonstrate that the RC filter significantly attenuates narrow pulses at low frequencies but introduces reset latency. In contrast, the registering method transforms sub-cycle instability into clean edge-sampling, trading a one-clock-cycle delay for enhanced robustness and scalability. This study provides a practical reference for the engineering implementation of race hazard elimination in counter circuits.
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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