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The goal of this paper is to design and measure the performance of two speed-independent asynchronous adapters for a communication architecture with distributed arbitration. The protocol is defined on the principles similar to those of the Token Ring but attempts to exploit the asynchronous design approach in improving the operational scalability of the system. Its two versions considered in this paper reflect the trade-off between the greater functional capability and low-latency requirements. We show the power of Signal Transition Graphs in specifying, verifying and synthesizing the adapter's logic. Using timing information obtained at the implementation level, we finally estimate the performance of the token-ring architecture with point-to-point interconnection.
Author(s): Carrion C, Yakovlev A
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1997
Pages: 16
Print publication date: 01/01/1997
Source Publication Date: 1997
Report Number: 562
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/562.pdf
