Second Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies Stretching quasi delay insensitivity by means of extended isochronic forks London, England May 30-May 31 ISBN: 0-8186-7098-3
Handshake circuits can be mapped onto QDI circuits using generic standard-cells only. Despite several interesting optimizations, the resulting circuits are large. By extending the isochronic-fork assumption, we arrive at a class of asynchronous circuits that particularly allow efficient realizations of double-rail data paths. This paper defines the extended isochronic fork, discusses its implementation, and provides numerous examples. The impact on circuit costs is evaluated for a DCC error decoder. In an appendix a basic arbiter (mutual-exclusion element) is presented that requires simple CMOS gates only. We also propose a 3-way generalization of this arbiter.
Index Terms:
asynchronous circuits; logic design; delay insensitivity; extended isochronic forks; handshake circuits; isochronic-fork assumption; asynchronous circuits; double-rail data paths; DCC error decoder; arbiter
Citation:
K. Van Berkel, F. Huberts, A. Peeters, "Stretching quasi delay insensitivity by means of extended isochronic forks," async, pp.99, Second Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies, 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||