Wave-pipelining: a tutorial and research survey

  • Authors:
  • Wayne P. Burleson;Maciej Ciesielski;Fabian Klass;Wentai Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;SUN Microsystems Inc., Sunnyvale, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Wave-pipelining is a method of high-performance circuit design which implements pipelining in logic without the use of intermediate latches or registers. The combination of high-performance integrated circuit (IC) technologies, pipelined architectures, and sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) tools has converted wave-pipelining from a theoretical oddity into a realistic, although challenging, VLSI design method. This paper presents a tutorial of the principles of wave-pipelining and a survey of wave-pipelined VLSI chips and CAD tools for the synthesis and analysis of wave-pipelined circuits.