Evaluation of pausible clocking for interfacing high speed IP cores in GALS Framework

  • Authors:
  • Joycee Mekie;Supratik Chakraborty;Dinesh K. Sharma

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '04 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Pausible clocking schemes have been proposed by GALSarchitects as a promising mechanism for reliable data transferbetween synchronous modules fed by low-speed independentclocks. In this paper, we argue that existingschemes are not well-suited for interfacing high-speed IPcores with large clock-distribution tree delay and high communicationrates. We propose an alternative interface circuitdesign for such IP cores that works with partial handshakebetween communicating modules and minimizes theperformance penalty of the sender and receiver. Our circuit,unlike pausible clocking, has a small probability of failure.