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An Automated Fine-Grain Pipelining Using Domino Style Asynchronous Library
St. Malo, France June 07-June 09
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Alexander Smirnov, Boston University
Alexander Taubin, Boston University
Ming Su, Boston University
Mark Karpovsky, Boston University
Register Transfer Level (RTL) synthesis model which simplified the design of clocked circuits allowed design automation boost and VLSI progress for more than a decade. Shrinking technology and progressive increase in clock frequency are bringing clock to its physical limits. Asynchronous circuits, which are believed to replace globally clocked designs in the future, remain out of the competition due to the design complexity of some automated approaches and poor results of other techniques. Successful asynchronous designs are known but they are primarily custom. This work sketches an automated approach for automatically reimplementing conventional RTL designs as fine-grain pipelined asynchronous quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) circuits and presents a framework for automated synthesis of such implementations from high-level behavior specifications. Experimental results are presented using our new dynamic asynchronous library.
Index Terms:
asynchronous EDA, synthesis, QDI, ASIC, HDL.
Citation:
Alexander Smirnov, Alexander Taubin, Ming Su, Mark Karpovsky, "An Automated Fine-Grain Pipelining Using Domino Style Asynchronous Library," acsd, pp.68-76, Fifth International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD'05), 2005
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