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What is the cost of delay insensitivity?

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What is the cost of delay insensitivity?
Deep submicron technology calls for new design techniques, in which wire and gate delays are accounted to have equal or nearly equal effect on circuit behaviour. Asynchronous speed-independent (SI) circuits, whose behaviour is only robust to gate delay variations, may be too optimistic. On the other hand, building circuits totally delay-insensitive (DI), for both gates and wires, is impractical. The paper presents an approach for automated synthesis of globally DI and locally SI circuits. It is based on order relaxation, a simple graphical transformation of a circuit's behavioural specification, for which Signal Transition Graph, an interpreted Petri net, is used. The method is successfully tested on a set of benchmarks and a realistic design example. It proves effective showing average cost of DI interfacing at about 40% for area and 20% for speed.
Hiroshi Saito, Alex Kondratyev, Jordi Cortadella,
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Type Conference
Year 1999
Where ICCAD
Authors Hiroshi Saito, Alex Kondratyev, Jordi Cortadella, Luciano Lavagno, Alexandre Yakovlev
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