Communications of the ACM
Automatic synthesis of extended burst-mode circuits using generalized C-elements
EURO-DAC '96/EURO-VHDL '96 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
Logical effort: designing fast CMOS circuits
Logical effort: designing fast CMOS circuits
ASYNC '97 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
An Asynchronous Low-Power 80C51 Microcontroller
ASYNC '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
The Lutonium: A Sub-Nanojoule Asynchronous 8051 Microcontroller
ASYNC '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
The Design of an Asynchronous MIPS R3000 Microprocessor
ARVLSI '97 Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI '97)
Asynchronous Microengines for Efficient High-level Control
ARVLSI '97 Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI '97)
AMULET3: A 100 MIPS Asynchronous Embedded Processor
ICCD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers & Processors
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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Asynchronous microengines are an attractive alternative to globally synchronous systems for the realization of high performance programmable controllers. However, because of the specific demands of asynchronous signaling, it is not always easy to use existing standard cell libraries to implement asynchronous microengines. In this paper we present the design and evaluation of a CMOS cell set that augments a generic cell library with cells specific to the design of asynchronous microengines. These cells encapsulate behavior and timing information critical to the implementation of asynchronous microengine controllers. These special purpose cells result in higher performance circuits, and in a significant reduction in design time over a generic library. To validate the library, the control path of a popular asynchronous controller benchmark has been designed and fabricated through MOSIS.