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Seventh International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'01)
A Practical Comparison of Asynchronous Design Styles
Salt Lake City, Utah
March 11-March 14
ISBN: 0-7695-1034-5
D.W. Lloyd, STMicroelectronics
J.D. Garside, The University of Manchester
It is well known that single-rail, bundled-delay circuits provide good area efficiency but it can be difficult to match them with appropriate delay models. Conversely delay insensitive circuits such as those employing dual-rail codes are larger but it is easier to ensure timing correctness. In terms of speed, bundled-delay circuits need conservative timing but dual-rail circuits can require an appreciable completion detection overhead. This paper compares designs in both of these styles and also a delay-insensitive 1-of-4 coded circuit using the practical example of an ARM Thumb instruction decoder. The results show that, through the application of careful optimizations, the 1-of-4 circuits out-performed single-rail circuits and reduced the power compared to dual-rail circuits.
Citation:
D.W. Lloyd, J.D. Garside, "A Practical Comparison of Asynchronous Design Styles," async, pp.36, Seventh International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'01), 2001
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