Title
Area Optimizations for Dual-Rail Circuits Using Relative-Timing Analysis
Abstract
Future deep sub-micron technologies will be characterized by large parametric variations, which could make asynchronous design an attractive solution for use on large scale. However, the investment in asynchronous CAD tools does not approach that in synchronous ones. Even when asynchronous tools leverage existing synchronous tool flows, they introduce large area and speed overheads. This paper proposes several heuristic and optimal algorithms, based on timing interval analysis, for improving existing asynchronous CAD solutions by optimizing area. The optimized circuits are 2.4 times smaller for an optimal algorithm and 1.8 times smaller for a heuristic one than the existing solutions. The optimized circuits are also shown to be resilient to large parametric variations, yielding better average-case latencies than their synchronous counterparts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ASYNC.2007.10
Berkeley, CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
asynchronous circuits,circuit optimisation,logic CAD,area optimization,asynchronous CAD solution,average-case latencies,deep sub-micron technology,dual-rail circuit,heuristic algorithm,relative-timing analysis
CAD,Asynchronous communication,Heuristic,Heuristic (computer science),Computer science,Parallel computing,Parametric statistics,Static timing analysis,Electronic design automation,Network analysis
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1522-8681
0-7695-2771-X
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiberiu Chelcea119515.36
Girish Venkataramani21159.23
Seth Copen Goldstein31951232.71