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Seventh International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'01)
Delay Insensitive System-on-Chip Interconnect using 1-of-4 Data Encoding
Salt Lake City, Utah
March 11-March 14
ISBN: 0-7695-1034-5
W.J. Bainbridge, The University of Manchester
S.B. Furber, The University of Manchester
The demands of System-on-Chip (SoC) interconnect increasingly cannot be satisfied through the use of a shared bus. A common alternative, using unidirectional, point-to-point connections and multiplexers, results in much greater area requirements and still suffers from some of the same problems. This paper introduces a delay-insensitive, asynchronous approach to interconnect over long paths using 1-of-4 encoded channels switched through multiplexers. A re-implementation of the MARBLE SoC bus (as used in the AMULET3H chip) using this technique shows that it can provide a higher throughput than the simpler tristate bus while using a narrower datapath.
Citation:
W.J. Bainbridge, S.B. Furber, "Delay Insensitive System-on-Chip Interconnect using 1-of-4 Data Encoding," async, pp.118, Seventh International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'01), 2001
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