Title :
Does asynchronous technology bring robustness in synchronous circuit monitoring?
Author :
Porcher, Alexandre ; Morin-Allory, Katell ; Fesquet, Laurent ; Chagoya, Alejandro
Author_Institution :
Grenoble INP, TIMA Lab., UJF, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
In harsh environment, circuits that monitor a design must be less sensitive to environmental conditions than the Circuit Under Verification itself. The asynchronous Quasi Delay Insensitive technology provides a good solution to cope with temperature and voltage variations. This approach has been used to design asynchronous ”monitors”, small IP´s that are added to the synchronous Circuit Under Verification in order to check some properties. However, the asynchronous monitors are impacted by the synchronous timing assumptions, thus leading to conflicting results.
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; logic design; asynchronous monitors; asynchronous quasi delay insensitive technology; asynchronous technology; design monitoring; environmental conditions; harsh environment; synchronous circuit monitoring; synchronous circuit under verification; synchronous timing assumptions; temperature variations; voltage variations; Monitoring; Protocols; Rails; Robustness; Synchronization; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Asynchronous circuits; PSL; QDI; monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2011 Forum on
Conference_Location :
Oldenburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0763-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1636-9874