What is Unintended latch?

A latch created by synthesis when a description intended as combinational logic fails to assign an output under some condition, so the value must be held.

Field: HDL & Verification

Related terms

Asynchronous reset Blocking assignment Combinational loop Constrained random verification Four-state logic Gate-level simulation Generate statement Hardware description language (HDL) Lint tool Mealy machine

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