Control Flow and Data Flow: concepts of distributed programming
Simulated annealing: theory and applications
Simulated annealing: theory and applications
Translating concurrent communicating programs into asynchronous circuits
Translating concurrent communicating programs into asynchronous circuits
Handshake circuits: an asynchronous architecture for VLSI programming
Handshake circuits: an asynchronous architecture for VLSI programming
A technique for synthesizing distributed burst-mode circuits
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
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Transformations for the synthesis and optimization of asynchronous distributed control
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Resynthesis and peephole transformations for the optimization of large-scale asynchronous systems
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits
Synthesis of 3D Asynchronous State Machines
ICCD '92 Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design on VLSI in Computer & Processors
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ICCD '92 Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design on VLSI in Computer & Processors
Peephole Optimization of Asynchronous Macromodule Networks
ICCS '94 Proceedings of the1994 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computer & Processors
A Design Framework for Asynchronous/Synchronous Circuits Based on CHP to VHDL Translation
ASYNC '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
High-Level Asynchronous System Design Using the ACK Framework
ASYNC '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
Automatic Process-Oriented Control Circuit Generation for Asynchronous High-Level Synthesis
ASYNC '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
Architectural Synthesis of Timed Asynchronous Systems
ICCD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design
DSD '04 Proceedings of the Digital System Design, EUROMICRO Systems
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective
Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective
Performance enhancement for variable block optimization in FGPA synthesis process
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology
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The current state-of-the art in high-level synthesis of asynchronous circuits is syntax directed translation, which performs a one-to-one mapping of an HDL-description into a corresponding circuit. This paper presents a method for behavioral synthesis of asynchronous circuits which builds on top of syntax directed translation, and which allows the designer to perform automatic design space exploration guided by area or speed constraints. This paper presents an asynchronous implementation template consisting of a data-path and a control unit and its implementation using the asynchronous hardware description language Balsa. This "conventional" template architecture allows us to adapt traditional synchronous synthesis techniques for resource sharing, scheduling, binding, etc., to the domain of asynchronous circuits. A prototype tool has been implemented on top of the Balsa framework, and the method is illustrated through the implementation of a set of example circuits. The main contributions of this paper are the fundamental idea, the template architecture and its implementation using asynchronous handshake components, and the implementation of a prototype tool.