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Energy Efficient Surfing
New York City, New York, USA March 14-March 16
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASYNC.2005.2011th IEEE International Symposium on ...
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Suwen Yang, University of British Columbia
Brian D. Winters, University of British Columbia
Mark R. Greenstreet, University of British Columbia
Surfing is a latchless pipelining technique where the propagation delays of gates and other logic functions are modulated to produce event attractors. We describe a test chip that demonstrates a surfing pipeline ring and then introduce new circuits that dramatically reduce the energy overhead for surfing. Our test chip implements a twelve-stage, surfing ring that supports two independent waves of computation without latches or other storage elements. We have operated the chip for over 48 hours and more than 2.6 * 10¹⁵ surfing events without an error. However, the energy consumption of the ring is unacceptable for scaling to larger applications. Thus, we introduce a new family of surfing circuits that use less energy than their domino counterparts and provide a factor of up to 1.75 improvement by the Et² metric. We demonstrate this new family with the design of a carry lookahead adder.
Index Terms:
Asynchronous design, carry lookahead adders, Et², high speed circuits, surfing, wave pipelining.
Citation:
Suwen Yang, Brian D. Winters, Mark R. Greenstreet, "Energy Efficient Surfing," async, pp.2-11, 11th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'05), 2005
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