Title :
Practical asynchronous controller design
Author :
Nowick, Steven M. ; Yun, Kenneth Y. ; Dill, David L.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Syst. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors evaluate their proposed asynchronous state-machine synthesis method, which uses locally synthesized clocks, on two realistic examples: a DRAM controller and a small computer systems interface controller. These circuits are designed to satisfy existing interface specifications, and are substantially larger than interfaces that have been created by competing methods, such as signal transition graph synthesis. The performance of the resulting implementations is at least as good as that of comparable synchronous implementations
Keywords :
DRAM chips; asynchronous sequential logic; microcontrollers; peripheral interfaces; DRAM controller; asynchronous controller design; asynchronous state-machine synthesis method; computer systems interface controller; interface specifications; locally synthesized clocks; performance; signal transition graph synthesis; synchronous implementations; Automatic control; Circuit synthesis; Clocks; Control system synthesis; Design methodology; Laboratories; Logic; Protocols; Random access memory; Signal synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1992. ICCD '92. Proceedings, IEEE 1992 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3110-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1992.276285
