• DocumentCode
    2359093
  • Title

    Hades-towards the design of an asynchronous superscalar processor

  • Author

    Elston, C.J. ; Christianson, D.B. ; Findlay, P.A. ; Steven, G.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Comput. Sci., Hertfordshire Univ., Hatfield, UK
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    30-31 May 1995
  • Firstpage
    200
  • Lastpage
    209
  • Abstract
    This paper uses Hades, a generic processor architecture aimed at single and multiple-instruction-issue asynchronous implementations, to illustrate some of the difficulties encountered in asynchronous processor design. Particular emphasis is placed on a decoupled operand forwarding mechanism which allows the last result of each functional unit to be forwarded to following instructions, yet completely separates forwarding from the register writeback operation
  • Keywords
    computer architecture; logic design; Hades; asynchronous processor design; asynchronous superscalar processor; decoupled operand forwarding; generic processor architecture; register writeback; Clocks; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Delay; Process design; Registers; Silicon; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Asynchronous Design Methodologies, 1995. Proceedings., Second Working Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7098-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCADM.1995.514657
  • Filename
    514657