Paper Info
Title
Design of a cell library for asynchronous microengines
Abstract
Asynchronous microengines are an attractive alternative to globally synchronous systems for the realization of high performance programmable controllers. However, because of the specific demands of asynchronous signaling, it is not always easy to use existing standard cell libraries to implement asynchronous microengines. In this paper we present the design and evaluation of a CMOS cell set that augments a generic cell library with cells specific to the design of asynchronous microengines. These cells encapsulate behavior and timing information critical to the implementation of asynchronous microengine controllers. These special purpose cells result in higher performance circuits, and in a significant reduction in design time over a generic library. To validate the library, the control path of a popular asynchronous controller benchmark has been designed and fabricated through MOSIS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1057661.1057753
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Keywords
Field
DocType
special purpose cells result,generic cell library,asynchronous microengines,asynchronous microengine controller,standard cell library,high performance,design time,cmos cell set,generic library,popular asynchronous controller benchmark
Asynchronous communication,Control theory,Asynchronous system,Computer science,Synchronizer,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Real-time computing,Standard cell,Programmable logic controller,Electronic circuit,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-057-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gaurav Gulati100.34
Erik Brunvand250966.09