• DocumentCode
    973153
  • Title

    Four-phase micropipeline latch control circuits

  • Author

    Furber, Stephen B. ; Day, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    247
  • Lastpage
    253
  • Abstract
    Standard micropipelines use simple two-phase control circuits. The latches employed on AMULET1 are level sensitive, so two- to four-phase converters are required in each latch controller. To avoid this overhead an investigation has been carried out into four-phase micropipeline control circuits; this has thrown up several design issues relating to cost, performance and safety, and forms a useful illustration of asynchronous design techniques.
  • Keywords
    CMOS logic circuits; VLSI; asynchronous circuits; flip-flops; logic design; pipeline processing; asynchronous design techniques; four-phase latch control circuits; logic design; micropipeline control circuits; Application software; Circuits; Costs; Latches; Logic; Microprocessors; Protocols; Safety; Signal design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1063-8210
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/92.502196
  • Filename
    502196