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Design Automation of Real-Life Asynchronous Devices and Systems (Foundations and Trends(R) in Electronic Design Automation)

By Jordi Cortadella , Luciano Lavagno , Alexander Taubin

Book information

Publisher
Now Publishers Inc
Year
2007
ISBN
1601980582, 9781601980588, 9781601980595
DOI
10.1561/1000000006
Open Library ID
OL12553917M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1813921 bytes)
Series
Foundations and Trends R in Electronic Design Automation
Pages
149\149
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

The number of gates on a chip is quickly growing toward and beyond the one billion mark. Keeping all the gates running at the beat of a single or a few rationally related clocks is becoming impossible. However, the electronics industry for the most part is still reluctant to adopt asynchronous design due to a common belief that there is a lack of commercial-quality Electronic Design Automation tools for asynchronous circuits. Design Automation of Real-Life Asynchronous Devices and Systems presents design flows that can tackle large designs without significant changes with respect to synchronous design flow. Limiting it self to the four design flows that come closest to this goal it starts by overviewing the most commercially and technically proven, Tangram. The other three flows, Null Convention Logic, de-synchronization and gate-level pipelining, can be considered as asynchronous re-implementations of synchronous specifications. Design Automation of Real-Life Asynchronous Devices and Systems demonstrates the possibility of implementing large legacy synchronous designs in an almost "push button" manner negating the need to re-educate synchronous RTL designers. It is essential reading for designers and researchers in large scale integrated circuit design.

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