Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

A software tool for automatically converting synchronous circuit designs into asynchronous equivalents is being developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh. Asynchronous ICs – which do not ...

As system-on-chip (SoC) designs grow larger, designers must grapple with serious global timing problems, the effect of wire loading and timing delays and the performance hit associated with supporting ...

Computer architecture researchers evaluate key areas such as pipelining, organization, instruction issue, branching, and exception handling when considering asynchronous and synchronous design and ...

If only we’d been taught the tricks associated with the asynchronous domain, we could have run wild and free; instead, we were condemned to serve the rules of the synchronous realm. In my previous ...

Corrective control of asynchronous sequential machines (ASMs) represents a critical advancement in the design and operation of digital systems where state transitions occur without synchronous timing.

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

The synchronous vs. asynchronous design debate erupts every now and then, usually when a vocal minority swears by asynchronous design, often claiming that asynchronous design delivers higher ...