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13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'07)
A Configurable Asynchronous Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generator
Berkeley, California
March 12-March 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2771-X
Alex Chow, Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA
William S. Coates, Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA
David Hopkins, Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA
We present a method of building pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generators using coupled asynchronous FIFO rings. A traditional PRBS generator using a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) can only generate a single maximal-length pattern with a fixed period. Our proposed FIFO implementation allows a single circuit to produce many different patterns of dfferentperiods, all of which are maximal- length,based on the initialization of the circuit. It also provides intrinsic fine-grain pipelining which alleviates the large feedback logic overhead in configurations with many taps, making such implementations practical. With an asynchronous-to-clochd inteifiuce, one can use the circuit in a synchronous environment. Detailed simulation results are presented.
Citation:
Alex Chow, William S. Coates, David Hopkins, "A Configurable Asynchronous Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generator," async, pp.143-152, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'07), 2007
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