PRINCIPLES OF ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT DESIGN– A Systems Perspective

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【简　介】:This book was compiled to address a perceived need for an introductory text
on asynchronous design. There are several highly technical books on aspects of
the subject, but no obvious starting point for a designer who wishes to become
acquainted for the first time with asynchronous technology. We hope this book
will serve as that starting point.
The reader is assumed to have some background in digital design. We assume
that concepts such as logic gates, flip-flops and Boolean logic are familiar.
Some of the latter sections also assume familiarity with the higher levels of
digital design such as microprocessor architectures and systems-on-chip, but
readers unfamiliar with these topics should still find the majority of the book
accessible.
The intended audience for the book comprises the following groups:
Industrial designers with a background in conventional (clocked) digital
design who wish to gain an understanding of asynchronous design in
order, for example, to establish whether or not it may be advantageous
to use asynchronous techniques in their next design task.
Students in Electronic and/or Computer Engineering who are taking a
course that includes aspects of asynchronous design.
The book is structured in three parts. Part I is a tutorial in asynchronous
design. It addresses the most important issue for the beginner, which is how to
think about asynchronous systems. The first big hurdle to be cleared is that of
mindset – asynchronous design requires a different mental approach from that
normally employed in clocked design. Attempts to take an existing clocked
system, strip out the clock and simply replace it with asynchronous handshakes
are doomed to disappoint. Another hurdle is that of circuit design methodology
– the existing body of literature presents an apparent plethora of disparate
approaches. The aim of the tutorial is to get behind this and to present a single
unified and coherent perspective which emphasizes the common ground. In
this way the tutorial should enable the reader to begin to understand the characteristics
of asynchronous systems in a way that will enable them to ‘think
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