Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective

by Jens Sparsø (Editor), Steve Furber (Editor)

Overview

Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design - A Systems Perspective addresses the need for an introductory text on asynchronous circuit design. Part I is an 8-chapter tutorial which addresses the most important issues for the beginner, including how to think about asynchronous systems. Part II is a 4-chapter introduction to Balsa, a freely-available synthesis system for asynchronous circuits which will enable the reader to get hands-on experience of designing high-level asynchronous systems. Part III offers a number of examples of state-of-the-art asynchronous systems to illustrate what can be built using asynchronous techniques. The examples range from a complete commercial smart card chip to complex microprocessors.
The objective in writing this book has been to enable industrial designers with a background in conventional (clocked) design to be able to understand asynchronous design sufficiently to assess what it has to offer and whether it might be advantageous in their next design task.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441949363
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/29/2010
Series:	European Low-Power Initiative for Electronic System Design
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I Asynchronous circuit design — A tutorial.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fundamentals.- 3 Static data-flow structures.- 4 Performance.- 5 Handshake circuit implementations.- 6 Speed-independent control circuits.- 7 Advanced 4-phase bundled-data prools and circuits.- 8 High-level languages and tools.- II Balsa — An Asynchronous Hardware Synthesis System.- 9 An introduction to Balsa.- 10 The Balsa language.- 11 Building library components.- 12 A simple DMA controller.- III Large-Scale Asynchronous Designs.- 13 Descale.- 14 An Asynchronous Viterbi Decoder.- 15 Processors.- Epilogue.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Intended for industrial designers with a background in more conventional digital design newly going asynchronous and for students in electronics/computer engineering, this introductory text provides a tutorial in how to conceptualize asynchronous systems; compares clocking (synchronous) vs. handshaking (asynchronous); and discusses handshake protocols and relevant theory. The 15 contributed chapters also cover the Balsa hardware synthesis system, and large-scale asynchronous designs with state-of-the-art examples. Includes 160 references. Few details are given about the initiative behind this series. Sparso is based at the Technical U. of Denmark. Furver is with the U. of Manchester. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)