In modern on-chip memories, an increasing demand for higher performance, lower power, reduced area, and improved robustness creates a rising need for advanced microarchitecture and circuit design techniques. Particularly ...

Conventional register files spread porting resources uniformly across all registers. This paper proposes a method called Asymmetric Clustering using a Register Cache (ACRC). ACRC utilizes a fast register cache that con ...

The counterflow pipeline concept was originated by Sproull and Sutherland to demonstrate the concept of asynchronous circuits. This architecture relies on distributed decision making and localized clocking and data mov ...

A VLSI system for image compression based on two dimensional discrete cosine transform (2-D DCT) is designed and its performance is estimated. The focus is mainly on the reduction of power consumption and a reasonable ...

A CMOS implementation of a True-Q Flip Flop is presented. It can perform either as an asynchronous storage element in micropipelines or a part of the synchronizer. It is capable of double-edge triggering which latches ...

Delta-sigma data converters have gained popularity in both analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs) due to their simplicity, high linearity and immunity to many analog circuit imperfections. The ...

A Graphic User Interface is developed to determine the existence of a particular sequence of piano notes within a monophonic sound waveform. Such waveforms are recorded within the Graphic User Interface and then passe ...

This thesis will discuss two critical components of a digital system -- domino logic styles and flip-flops. In today's microprocessors, both domino logic and flip-flops are essential to high-performance and low-power d ...