DocumentCode
2236898
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
fYear
2011
fDate
13-15 Sept. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2011 Forum on
Conference_Location
Oldenburg
ISSN
1636-9874
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0763-6
Electronic_ISBN
1636-9874
Type
conf
Filename
6069471
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