Modelling SAMIPS: A Synthesisable Asynchronous MIPS Processor

  • Authors:
  • Q. Zhang;G. Theodoropoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ANSS '04 Proceedings of the 37th annual symposium on Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The last fifteen years have witnessed a resurgence ofinterest in asynchronous digital design techniques as theypromise to liberate VLSI systems from clock skew problems,offer the potential for low power and high performanceand encourage a modular design philosophy whichmakes incremental technological migration a much easiertask. This activity has revealed a need for modelling andsimulation techniques suitable for the asynchronous designstyle. The concurrent process algebra Communication SequentialProcesses (CSP) is increasingly advocated as particularlysuitable for this purpose. This paper discusses themodelling of SAMIPS, a synthesisable asynchronous MIPSprocessor core, in Balsa, a CSP-based, asynchronous hardwaredescription language and synthesis tool.