ACTIVITY-MONITORING COMPLETION-DETECTION (AMCD) - A NEW APPROACH TO ACHIEVE SELF-TIMING

Authors
GRASS E JONES S
Citation
E. Grass et S. Jones, ACTIVITY-MONITORING COMPLETION-DETECTION (AMCD) - A NEW APPROACH TO ACHIEVE SELF-TIMING, Electronics Letters, 32(2), 1996, pp. 86-88
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
86 - 88
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1996)32:2<86:AC(-AN>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
A new method for designing asynchronous circuits is described. It uses additional circuitry to monitor the activity of internal nodes. When all transitions have halted, a completion signal is generated. Details of the circuit and design methodology are given. The proposed approac h results in faster operation than synchronous circuits, with only a s mall circuit overhead incurred.