The design of a high performance low power microprocessor
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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special issue on low power electronics and design
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Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective
Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective
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This paper describes the design of an asynchronous implementation of a sensor network processor. The main purpose of this work is the reduction of power consumption in sensor network node processors and the research presented here tries to explore the suitability of asynchronous circuits for this purpose. The Handshake Solutions toolkit is used to implement an asynchronous version of a sensor processor. The design is made compact, trading area and leakage power savings with dynamic power costs, targeting the typical sparse operating characteristics of sensor node processors. It is then compared with a synchronous version of the same processor based on a reasonable power metric to guarantee accurate comparison. Apart from that, we also compare the design effort between synchronous and asynchronous implementations.