Title :
Two-phase micropipeline control wrapper with early evaluation
Author :
Reese, R.B. ; Thornton, M.A. ; Traver, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
fDate :
3/18/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A two-phase control wrapper for a micropipeline is presented. The wrapper is implemented in an Artisan 0.13μ standard cell library that has not been augmented with any special cells for asynchronous design. The wrapper supports early evaluation allowing the output to be updated after a subset of the inputs have arrived, thus improving the throughput of the micropipeline.
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; logic design; pipeline processing; Artisan 0.13μ standard cell library; asynchronous design; control logic; micropipeline; two-phase control wrapper;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040256
