Asynchronous circuits have recently been a breakthrough in many high performance computers. The concept of asynchronous circuits which started a long time ago has slowly grasped the attention of many designers. The Muller-C-element is an important control block in many asynchronous designs and therefore it is important to understand some...
Better performance has been one of the main motivations behind the recent resurgence
of interest in asynchronous circuits (no matter whether this is always true or not).
We are particularly interested in the performance of pipelines since they are used extensively
in current digital systems. There exists an algorithm that...
The counterflow pipeline concept was originated by Sproull et. al.[1] to demonstrate the concept of asynchronous circuits. The basic premise is that a simple architecture with only local communication and control and a simple regular structure will result in increased performance. This thesis attempts to analyze the performance of the...
With the increased demand for complex digital signal processing systems,
real-time signal processing requires higher throughput systems. In the past, the
throughput has been increased by increasing the clock rates, but
synchronization can become increasingly more difficult. Recently there has
been renewed interest in designing asynchronous digital systems. In an...
Computer has evolved rapidly during the past several decades in terms of
its implementation technology; it's architecture, however, has not changed dramatically
since the von Neumann computer(control flow) model emerged in the 1940s. One
main reason is that the performance for this kind of computers was able to satisfy
the...
The recent advances in VLSI technology have facilitated feature shrinking
and hence a rapid increase in the levels of integration at the chip level. This increase
in the level of integration has brought along with it a host of other constraints, the
most crucial being timing management and increased power...
Efficient methods for simulating the substrate noise generated by complex synchronous and asynchronous digital logic circuits are presented. By simulating digital logic at the gate level, and precharacterizing the gates, the substrate noise generation can be predicted and used in a transistor level simulation of the sensitive analog blocks. This...
Delay insensitive asynchronous circuitry provides significant advantages with
respect to substrate noise due to localized switching. The differences between the
substrate noise from NULL Convention Logic (NCL) and traditional Clocked
Boolean Logic (CBL) are described and analyzed based on measured results. A test chip fabricated in the TSMC 0.25 um...
A digital phase locked loop (DPLL) and a statistical time-to-digital converter (STDC) were previously fabricated in a 0.35µm, 3.3V SOI CMOS process. This work summarizes these designs and characterizes the measured performance. Simulations supplement the measurements where applicable.
The DPLL was found to reach a locked state under a limited...