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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Alex Bystrov, Professor Alex Yakovlev
A new method for low-latency asynchronous circuit design uses a two-level architecture. It consists of the explicit context logic and output flip-flops. Explicit context logic computes a single context signal for each output concurrently to the environment operation. Every flip-flop generates an output from the corresponding context and trigger signals. The flip-flop latency for every transition is defined by the number of corresponding trigger transitions and can be predicted at an early stage of the design. Explicit context logic is generated by a logic synthesis tool, which produces a near logarithmic state encoding. This is especially beneficial for the designs from specifications having implicit (hidden) counters.
Author(s): Bystrov A, Yakovlev A
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2001
Pages: 14
Print publication date: 01/12/2001
Source Publication Date: December 2001
Report Number: 754
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/754.pdf
