Second Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies Designing an asynchronous pipeline token ring interface London, England May 30-May 31 ISBN: 0-8186-7098-3
We describe the design of a speed-independent interface based on a pipeline token-ring architecture. The original goal was to build a reliable communication medium, able to tolerate up to two faults in any segment of the ring, to be used in an on-board multicomputer. We believe that the pipeline ring approach can help reduce some negative "analogue" effects inherent in asynchronous buses (including on-chip ones) by means of using only "point-to-point" interconnections. We briefly outline the major ideas of the channel's organisation, protocol and our syntax-driven implementation of the channel protocol controller. The protocol has been recently verified for deadlock-freedom and fairness.
Index Terms:
pipeline processing; token networks; local area networks; multiprocessor interconnection networks; protocols; asynchronous pipeline token ring interface; speed-independent interface; reliable communication medium; on-board multicomputer; asynchronous buses; point-to-point interconnections; syntax-driven implementation; channel protocol controller; deadlock-freedom; fairness
Citation:
A. Yakovlev, V. Varshavsky, V. Marakhovsky, A. Semenov, "Designing an asynchronous pipeline token ring interface," async, pp.32, Second Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies, 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||