Third International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '97)
AMULET2e: An Asynchronous Embedded Controller
Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS
April 07-April 10
ISBN: 0-8186-7922-0
J. Liu, The University of Manchester
P. Day, Cogency Technology Inc.
AMULET1 demonstrated the feasibility of building an asynchronous implementation of the ARM microprocessor. Although functional, this first asynchronous ARM microprocessor did not fully exploit the potential of the asynchronous design style to deliver improved performance and power consumption. This paper describes AMULET2e, an embedded system chip incorporating an enhanced asynchronous ARM core (AMULET2), a 4 Kbyte pipelined cache, a flexible memory interface and assorted programmable control functions. AMULET2e silicon demonstrates competitive performance and power-efficiency, ease of design, and innovative features that exploit its asynchronous operation to advantage in power-sensitive applications.
Index Terms:
Asynchronous design, Embedded control, Microprocessors, Low power.
Citation:
S. B. Furber, J. D. Garside, S. Temple, J. Liu, P. Day, N. C. Paver., "AMULET2e: An Asynchronous Embedded Controller," async, pp.290, Third International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '97), 1997