Asynchronous Digital Circuit Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Asynchronous Circuit Design: Motivation, Background, & Methods

   • Al Davis, Steven M. Nowick

   Pages 1-49

3. Parallel Program and Asynchronous Circuit Design

   • Jo C. Ebergen, John Segers, Igor Benko

   Pages 50-103

4. Synthesizing Asynchronous Circuits: Practice and Experience

   • Al Davis

   Pages 104-150

5. VLSI Programming of Asynchronous Circuits for Low Power

   • Kees van Berkel, Martin Rem

   Pages 151-210

6. Computing without Clocks: Micropipelining the ARM Processor

   • Steve Furber

   Pages 211-262

7. Back Matter

   Pages 263-265

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As the costs of power and timing become increasingly difficult to manage in traditional synchronous systems, designers are being forced to look at asynchronous alternatives. Based on reworked and expanded papers from the VII Banff Higher Order Workshop, this volume examines asynchronous methods which have been used in large circuit design, ranging from initial formal specification to more standard finite state machine based control models. Written by leading practitioners in the area, the papers cover many aspects of current practice including practical design, silicon compilation, and applications of formal specification. It also includes a state-of-the-art survey of asynchronous hardware design. The resulting volume will be invaluable to anyone interested in designing correct asynchronous circuits which exhibit high performance or low power operation.

• VLSI
• circuit design
• design
• formal specification
• hardware design
• programming

• Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  Graham Birtwistle

• Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  Alan Davis

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