MONTEREY, Calif. — A shift to asynchronous design styles is “inevitable” for digital computing systems, according to Ivan Sutherland, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

Synchronous interfaces involve a single clock domain and are relatively easy to design. However, at times, it is advantageous and necessary to have an asynchronous interface between peripherals for ...

This paper describes the architectural design of RISC based asynchronous microprocessor as an alternative to clocked design. It explores the design of a low power asynchronous CORDIC coprocessor ...

Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

In the proper context, asynchronous logic in SoC design today can provide benefits. But what about impact on design tools and flows? In the right situation, using asynchronous logic makes a lot of ...

Housed in a 255-contact plastic ball-grid-array package that measures just 25 by 25 mm, the W82M32V-XBX multichip memory module provides up to 2 Mwords by 32 bits of asynchronous static memory. The ...