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Sixth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'00)
High-Throughput Asynchronous Pipelines for Fine-Grain Dynamic Datapaths
Eilat, Israel
April 02-April 06
ISBN: 0-7695-0586-4
Montek Singh, Columbia University
Steven M. Nowick, Columbia University
This paper introduces several new asynchronous pipeline designs, which offer high throughput as well as low latency. The designs target dynamic datapaths, both dual-rail as well as single-rail. The new pipelines are latch-free and therefore are particularly well suited for fine-grain pipelining, i.e., where each pipeline stage is only a single gate deep. The pipelines employ new control structures and protocols aimed at reducing the handshaking delay, the principal impediment to achieving high throughput in asynchronous pipelines.As a test vehicle, a 4-bit FIFO was designed using 0.6-micron technology. The results of careful HSPICE simulations of the FIFO designs are very encouraging. The dual-rail designs deliver a throughput of up to 860 million data items per second. This performance represents an improvement by a factor of 2 over a widely used comparable approach by Williams. The new single-rail designs deliver a throughput of up to 1208 million data items per second.
Index Terms:
asynchronous, pipelines, fine-grain pipelining, VLSI, digital design, dynamic logic, FIFO, high-throughput
Citation:
Montek Singh, Steven M. Nowick, "High-Throughput Asynchronous Pipelines for Fine-Grain Dynamic Datapaths," async, pp.198, Sixth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'00), 2000
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