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Checking Delay-Insensitivity: 104 Gates and Beyond
Manchester, United Kingdom April 08-April 11
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Lawrence Neukom, Verific Design Automation
Alexander Taubin, Boston University
Alex Kondratyev, Cadence Berkeley Laboratories
Oriol Roig, Cadence Berkeley Laboratories
Karl Fant, Theseus Research
Wire and gate delays are accounted to have equal, or nearly equal, effect on circuit behavior in modern design techniques. This paper introduces a new approach to verify circuits whose behavior is independent of component delays (delay-insensitive). It shows that for a particular way of implementing a delay-insensitive circuit, through a Null Convention Logic methodology, the complexity of the verification task might be significantly reduced. This method is implemented using Satisfiability (SAT)-solvers and is successfully tested on realistic design examples having tens of thousands of gates.
Index Terms:
delay-insensitive design, verification, satisfiability solvers
Citation:
Lawrence Neukom, Alexander Taubin, Alex Kondratyev, Oriol Roig, Karl Fant, "Checking Delay-Insensitivity: 104 Gates and Beyond," async, pp.149, Eighth International Symposium on Asynchronus Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'02), 2002
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