Behavioral transformations to increase noise immunity in asynchronous specifications

Author

Taubin, Alexander ; Kondratyev, Alexander ; Cortadella, Jordi ; Lavagno, Luciano

Author_Institution

Aizu Univ., Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Noise immunity is becoming one of the most important design parameters for deep-sub-micron (DSM) technologies. Asynchronous circuits seem to be a good candidate to alleviate the problems originated by simultaneous switching noise. However, they are also more sensitive than synchronous ones to spurious signal transitions and delay variations produced by crosstalk noise. This paper addresses the problem of analyzing and synthesizing asynchronous circuits with noise immunity being the main design parameter. The techniques presented in the paper focus on crosstalk noise and tackle the problem from the behavioral point of view

Keywords

VLSI; asynchronous circuits; circuit CAD; crosstalk; delays; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; network analysis; transients; 100 nm; asynchronous circuits; asynchronous specifications; behavioral transformations; crosstalk noise; deep-sub-micron technologies; design parameters; lay variations; noise immunity; simultaneous switching noise; spurious signal transitions; Circuit noise; Clocks; Crosstalk; Delay; Electronic switching systems; Magnetic noise; Noise reduction; Read only memory; Threshold voltage; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, 1999. Proceedings., Fifth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1522-8681

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0031-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASYNC.1999.761521

Filename

761521