Asynchronous Pulse Logic

by Mika M. Nystrom, Alain Martin

Overview

Asynchronous Pulse Logic is a comprehensive analysis of a newly developed asynchronous circuit family. The book covers circuit theory, practical circuits, design tools and an example of the design of a simple asynchronous microprocessor using the circuit family.
Asynchronous Pulse Logic will be of interest to industrial and academic researcher working on high-speed VLSI systems. Graduate students will find this useful reference for computer-aided design of asynchronous or related VLSI systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441952844
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Mika Nyström is an Instructor in Computer Science at California Institute of Technology Alain Martin heads the Asynchronous VLSI group and is a Professor of Computer Science at California Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

Preliminaries.- Asynchronous-Pulse-Logic Basics.- Computing with Pulses.- A Single-Track Asynchronous-Pulse-Logic Family: I. Basic Circuits.- A Single-Track Asynchronous-Pulse-Logic Family: II. Advanced Circuits.- Automatic Generation of Asynchronous-Pulse-Logic Circuits.- A Design Example: The Spam Microprocessor.- Related Work.- Lessons Learned.

Editorial Reviews

Matched delay mechanisms in asynchronous bundled data computer systems can cause huge headaches in the design process. The quasi delay-insensitive (QDI) model was developed to help overcome this problem. Nyström and Martin (both of the Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology) present a design style that retains the system-simplifying property of QDI design, while limiting the use of timing assumptions. They study a microprocessor design consisting of single-track-handshake asynchronous-pulse-logic (STAPL) circuits, most of which were designed using Pipeline Language 1. Evaluating the microprocessor's performance, they find that the STAPL circuit family allows for higher performance at a small extra cost in energy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR