• 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