Title :
Four-phase micropipeline latch control circuits
Author :
Furber, Stephen B. ; Day, Paul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK
fDate :
6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Standard micropipelines use simple two-phase control circuits. The latches employed on AMULET1 are level sensitive, so two- to four-phase converters are required in each latch controller. To avoid this overhead an investigation has been carried out into four-phase micropipeline control circuits; this has thrown up several design issues relating to cost, performance and safety, and forms a useful illustration of asynchronous design techniques.
Keywords :
CMOS logic circuits; VLSI; asynchronous circuits; flip-flops; logic design; pipeline processing; asynchronous design techniques; four-phase latch control circuits; logic design; micropipeline control circuits; Application software; Circuits; Costs; Latches; Logic; Microprocessors; Protocols; Safety; Signal design;
Journal_Title :
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
