Relative timing

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth S. Stevens;Ran Ginosar;Shai Rotem

  • Affiliations:
  • Strategic CAD Labs, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR;VLSI Systems Research Center, The Technion, Haifa, Israel;Strategic CAD Labs, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special section on system-level interconnect prediction (SLIP)
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Relative timing (RT) is introduced as a method for asynchronous design. Timing requirements of a circuit are made explicit using relative timing. Timing can be directly added, removed, and optimized using this style. RT synthesis and verification are demonstrated on three example circuits, facilitating transformations from speed-independent circuits to burst-mode and pulse-mode circuits. Relative timing enables improved performance, area, power, and functional testability of up to a factor of 3 × in all three cases. This method is the foundation of optimized timed circuit designs used in an industrial test chip, and may be formalized and automated.