Structural Methods for the Synthesis of Speed-Independent Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Enric Pastor;Oriol Roig;Jordi Cortadella;Alex Kondratyev

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08071 Barcelona, Spain;Computer Architecture Laboratory, The university of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, 965 Japan

  • Venue:
  • EDTC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 European conference on Design and Test
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Most existing tools for the synthesis of asynchronous circuits from Signal Transition Graphs (STGs) derive the reachability graph for the calculation of logic equations. This paper presents novel methods exclusively based on the structural analysis of the underlying Petri net. This methodology can be applied to any STG that can be covered by State Machines and, in particular, to all live and safe free-choice STGs. Significant improvements with regard to existing structural methods are provided. The new techniques have been implemented in an experimental tool that has been able to synthesize specifications with over 1027 markings, some of them being non-free choice.