Title :
Single-rail handshake circuits
Author :
Peeters, Ad ; Van Berkel, Kees
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
Single-rail handshake circuits are introduced as a cost effective implementation of asynchronous circuits. Compared to double-rail implementations, the circuits are smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient. Furthermore, in contrast to common belief, all four phases of the four-phase handshake protocol can be productive. An important selling point for single-rail circuits is that they can be implemented in any (generic) standard-cell library. This facilitates technology migration and makes asynchronous circuits a potential technology of choice for low-power applications
Keywords :
VLSI; asynchronous circuits; cellular arrays; integrated logic circuits; protocols; asynchronous circuits; energy-efficient; four-phase handshake protocol; low-power applications; single-rail handshake circuits; standard-cell library; technology migration; Asynchronous circuits; Combinational circuits; Decoding; Encoding; Libraries; Production; Protocols; Robustness; Very large scale integration; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Asynchronous Design Methodologies, 1995. Proceedings., Second Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7098-3
DOI :
10.1109/WCADM.1995.514642
