Title :
Occam: an asynchronous hardware description language?
Author :
Theodoropoulos, G.K. ; Tsakogiannis, G.K. ; Woods, J.V.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK
Abstract :
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in asynchronous hardware due to the potential of asynchronous logic for higher performance, power efficiency and immunity from clock-related timing problems. This activity has revealed the current lack of suitable languages and notations for the description of asynchronous hardware systems anti has fueled an intense research effort in this area. Communicating sequential processes (CSP) in particular have attracted the interest of many researchers as a potential means for the modelling of asynchronous designs. Contributing to this effort, this paper examines whether Occam, a CSP-based language, may provide a solution to this endeavour.
Keywords :
Occam; asynchronous circuits; communicating sequential processes; hardware description languages; timing; CSP-based language; Occam; asynchronous design modelling; asynchronous hardware description language; asynchronous logic; clock-related timing problem immunity; communicating sequential processes; performance; power efficiency; Clocks; Computer science; Control systems; Hardware design languages; Latches; Logic; Protocols; Synchronization; Very large scale integration; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
EUROMICRO 97. New Frontiers of Information Technology., Proceedings of the 23rd EUROMICRO Conference
Conference_Location :
Budapest, Hungary
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8129-2
DOI :
10.1109/EURMIC.1997.617282
