Asynchronous pulse logic
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Glavni autor: | Nyström, Mika (-) |
Ostali autori: | Martin, Alain J. (-) |
Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
Jezik: | eng |
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Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c2002.
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. PRELIMINARIES
- 1 High-speed CMOS-circuits
- 2 Asynchronous protocols and delay-insensitive codes
- 3 Production rules
- 4 The MiniMIPS processor
- 5 Commonly used abbreviations
- 2. ASYNCHRONOUS-PULSE-LOGIC BASICS
- 1 Road map of this chapter
- 2 The pulse repeater
- 2.1 Timing constraints in the pulse repeater
- 2.2 Simulating the pulse repeater
- 2.3 The synchronous digital model
- 2.4 Asymmetric pulse-repeaters
- 3 Formal model of pulse repeater
- 3.1 Basic definitions
- 3.2 Handling the practical simulations
- 3.3 Expanding the model
- 3.4 Using the extended model
- 3.5 Noise margins
- 4 Differential-equations treatment of pulse repeater
- 4.1 Input behavior of pulse repeater
- 3. COMPUTING WITH PULSES
- I A simple logic example
- 2 Pulse-handshake duty-cycle
- 3 Single-track-handshake interfaces
- 4 Timing constraints and timing "assumptions"
- 5 Minimum cycle-transition-counts
- 6 Solutions to transition-count problem
- 7 The APL design-style in short
- 4. A SINGLE-TRACK ASYNCHRONOUS-PULSE-
- LOGIC FAMILY: I. BASIC CIRCUITS
- 1 Preliminaries
- 1.1 Transition counting in pipelined asynchronous circuits
- 1.2 Transition-count choices in pulsed circuits
- 1.3 Execution model
- 1.4 Capabilities of the STAPL family
- 1.5 Design philosophy
- 2 The basic template
- 2.1 Bit generator
- 2.2 Bit bucket
- 2.3 Left-right buffer
- 3 Summary of properties of the simple circuits
- 5. A SINGLE-TRACK ASYNCHRONOUS-PULSE-
- LOGIC FAMILY: II. ADVANCED CIRCUITS
- 1 Multiple input and output channels
- 1.1 Naive implementation
- 1.2 Double triggering of logic block in the naive design
- 1.3 Solution
- 1.4 Timing assumptions
- 2 General logic computations
- 2.1 Inputs whose values are not used
- 3 Conditional communications
- 3.1 The same program can be expressed in several ways
- 3.2 Simple techniques for sends
- 3.3 General techniques for conditional communications
- 4 Storing state
- 4.1 The general state-storing problem
- 4.2 Implementing state variables
- 4.3 Compiling the state bit
- 5 Special circuits
- 5.1 Arbitration
- 5.2 Four-phase converters
- 6 Resetting STAPL circuits
- 6.1 Previously used resetting schemes
- 6.2 An example
- 6.3 Generating initial tokens
- 7 How our circuits relate to the design philosophy
- 8 Noise
- 8.1 External noise-sources
- 8.2 Charge sharing
- 8.3 Crosstalk
- 8.4 Design inaccuracies
- 6. AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF
- ASYNCHRONOUS-PULSE-LOGIC CIRCUITS
- 1 Straightforwardly compiling from a higher-level specification
- 2 An alternative compilation method
- 3 What we compile
- 4 The PL1 language
- 4.1 Channels or shared variables?
- 4.2 Simple description of the PL1 language
- 4.3 An example: the replicator
- 5 Compiling PLI
- 6 PL 1-compiler front-end
- 6.1 Determinism conditions
- 6.2 Data encoding
- 7 PL -compiler back-end
- 7.1 Slack
- 7.2 Logic simplification
- 7.3 Code generation
- 7. A DESIGN EXAMPLE:
- THE SPAM MICROPROCESSOR
- 1 The SPAM architecture
- 2 SPAM implementation
- 2.1 Decomposition
- 2.2 Arbitrated branch-delay
- 2.3 Byte skewing
- 3 Design examples
- 3.1 The PCUNIT
- 3.2 The REGFILE
- 4 Performance measurements on the SPAM implementation
- 4.1 Straightline program
- 4.2 Computing Fibonacci numbers
- 4.3 Energy measurements
- 4.4 Summary of SPAM implementation's performance
- 4.5 Comparison with QDI
- 8. RELATED WORK
- 1 Theory
- 2 STAPL circuit family
- 3 PL1 language
- 4 SPAM microprocessor
- 9. LESSONS LEARNED
- 1 Conclusion
- Appendices
- PL1 Report
- 0.1 Scope
- 0.2 Structure of PL1
- 1 Syntax elements
- 1.1 Keywords
- 1.2 Comments
- 1.3 Numericals
- 1.4 Identifiers
- 1.5 Reserved special operators
- 1.6 Expression operators
- 1.7 Expression syntax
- 1.8 Actions
- 2 PL1 process description
- 2.1 Declarations
- 2.2 Communication statement
- 2.3 Process communication-block
- 3 Semantics
- 3.1 Expression semantics
- 3.2 Action semantics
- 3.3 Execution semantics
- 3.4 Invariants
- 3.5 Semantics in terms of CHP
- 3.6 Slack elasticity
- 4 Examples
- SPAM Processor Architecture Definition
- 1 SPAM overview
- 2 SPAM instruction format
- 3 SPAM instruction semantics
- 3.1 Operand generation
- 3.2 Operation definitions
- 4 Assembly-language conventions
- 4.1 The SPAM assembly format
- Proof that Definition 2.2 Defines a Partial Order
- 1 Remark on Continuity.