AMULET3i-an asynchronous system-on-chip

Author

Garside, J.D. ; Bainbridge, W.J. ; Bardsley, A. ; Clark, D.M. ; Edwards, D.A. ; Furber, S.B. ; Liu, J. ; Lloyd, D.W. ; Mohammadi, S. ; Pepper, J.S. ; Petlin, O. ; Temple, S. ; Woods, J.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

175

Abstract

AMULET3i is the third generation asynchronous ARM-compatible microprocessor subsystem developed at the University of Manchester. It is internally modular being based around the MARBLE asynchronous on-chip bus, and is also extensible through the addition of conventional clocked synthesizable peripherals via an on-chip synchronous peripheral bus. As such it is capable of forming the core of a wide range of system-on-chip applications, bringing asynchronous design into commercial use in a flexible and easy-to-use configuration. Its performance and area are comparable with clocked equivalents, and its low-power and electromagnetic emission characteristics give it unique capabilities in appropriate applications

Keywords

logic design; microprocessor chips; AMULET3i; ARM-compatible microprocessor subsystem; MARBLE asynchronous on-chip bus; asynchronous system-on-chip; clocked equivalents; clocked synthesizable peripherals; electromagnetic emission characteristics; synchronous peripheral bus; Bridges; Communication system control; Control systems; Microprocessors; Random access memory; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Software testing; System-on-a-chip; Telecommunication control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, 2000. (ASYNC 2000) Proceedings. Sixth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Eilat

ISSN

1522-8681

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0586-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASYNC.2000.836999

Filename

836999