A Configurable Asynchronous Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generator

  • Authors:
  • Alex Chow;William S. Coates;David Hopkins

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA;Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA;Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA

  • Venue:
  • ASYNC '07 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a method of building pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generators using coupled asynchronous FIFO rings. A traditional PRBS generator using a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) can only generate a single maximal-length pattern with a fixed period. Our proposed FIFO implementation allows a single circuit to produce many different patterns of dfferentperiods, all of which are maximal- length,based on the initialization of the circuit. It also provides intrinsic fine-grain pipelining which alleviates the large feedback logic overhead in configurations with many taps, making such implementations practical. With an asynchronous-to-clochd inteifiuce, one can use the circuit in a synchronous environment. Detailed simulation results are presented.