A Method to Design Compact Dual-rail Asynchronous Primitives

Alin Razafindraibe (1) , Michel Robert (1) , Marc Renaudin (2) , Philippe Maurine (1)

1 SysMIC - Conception et Test de Systèmes MICroélectroniques
2 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

This paper aims at introducing a method to quickly design compact dual-rail asynchronous primitives. If the proposed cells are dedicated to the design of dual-rail asynchronous circuits, it is also possible to use such primitives to design dual-rail synchronous circuits. The method detailed herein has been applied to develop the schematics of various basic primitives. The performances of the 130nm obtained cells have been simulated and compared with more traditional implementations.

Mots clés: Asynchronous

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Alin Razafindraibe, Michel Robert, Marc Renaudin, Philippe Maurine. A Method to Design Compact Dual-rail Asynchronous Primitives. PATMOS: Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, Sep 2005, Leuven, Belgium. pp.571-580, ⟨10.1007/11556930_58⟩. ⟨hal-00105846⟩