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19th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'06)
Clockless Pipelining for Coarse Grain Datapaths
Hyderabad, India
January 03-January 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2502-4
Abdelhalim Alsharqawi, University of Central Florida
Abdel Ejnioui, University of South Florida
In this paper, we present two novel synchronization approaches to support data flow in clockless designs using single-rail encoding. Both approaches are based on self-resetting stage logic in which a pipeline stage resets itself before starting the next execution cycle. As such, a stage goes through a reset and an evaluate phase to complete a single period. While in the first approach synchronization is controlled between neighboring stages, the last stage of the pipeline in the second approach controls the synchronization of all the stages in the pipeline. Concept designs of both pipelines are presented to illustrate the inner workings of self-resetting stage logic and its data-flow synchronization mechanism. Implementation results show that both pipelines can reach throughputs up to 1.4 Giga outputs per second.
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Abdelhalim Alsharqawi, Abdel Ejnioui, "Clockless Pipelining for Coarse Grain Datapaths," vlsid, pp.749-753, 19th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'06), 2006
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