Design Automation of Real-Life Asynchronous Devices and Systems presents design flows that can tackle large designs without significant changes with respect to synchronous design flow. Limiting it self to the four design flows that come closest to this goal it starts by overviewing the most commercially and technically proven, Tangram. The other three flows, Null Convention Logic, de-synchronization and gate-level pipelining, can be considered as asynchronous re- implementations of synchronous specifications.

Design Automation of Real-Life Asynchronous Devices and Systems demonstrates the possibility of implementing large legacy synchronous designs in an almost “push button” manner negating the need to re-educate synchronous RTL designers. It is essential reading for designers and researchers in large scale integrated circuit design.

Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific

Contents:

• Introduction
• Handshake Technology
• Synchronous-to-Asynchronous RTL Flow Using NULL Convention Logic (NCL)
• De-synchronization: a Simple Mutation to Transform a Circuit into Asynchronous
• Automated Gate Level Pipelining (Weaver)
• Applications and Success Stories
• Conclusions Acknowledgments
• References