Title :
Novel design of priority arbiter
Author :
Bahbouh, Hussein T. ; Khalil, Ahmed H. ; Salama, Aly E.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ., Egypt
Abstract :
Many digital circuits with asynchronous inputs are susceptible to failure even when all their components are fault-free. They may fail as a result of metastable operation when their inputs have critical timing combinations. This paper addresses a novel priority arbiter architecture to solve the metastability problem. SPICE simulation is used to verify its performance and correctness. In contrast to other arbiters, the results showed that this new design has better immunity against metastable operation
Keywords :
CMOS logic circuits; circuit simulation; circuit stability; integrated circuit reliability; synchronisation; SPICE simulation; asynchronous inputs; critical timing combinations; design; digital circuits; failure; metastable operation; performance; priority arbiter; Circuit simulation; Digital circuits; Flip-flops; Metastasis; SPICE; Strontium; Switches; Synchronization; Timing; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Conference, 1999. NRSC '99. Proceedings of the Sixteenth National
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
977-5031-62-1
DOI :
10.1109/NRSC.1999.760897
