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http://dx.doi.org/10.13067/JKIECS.2014.9.12.1345

Analysis of Metastability for the Synchronizer of NoC  

Chong, Jiang (전남대학교 대학원 컴퓨터공학과)
Kim, Kang-Chul (전남대학교 전기전자통신컴퓨터공학부)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.9, no.12, 2014 , pp. 1345-1352 More about this Journal
Abstract
Bus architecture of SoC has been replaced by NoC in recent years. Noc uses the multi-clock domains to transmit and receive data between neighbor network interfaces and they have same frequency, but a phase difference because of clock skew. So a synchronizer is used for a mesochronous frequency in interconnection between network interfaces. In this paper the metastability is defined and analyzed in a D latch and a D flip-flop to search the possibilities that data can be lost in the process of sending and receiving data between interconnects when a local frequency and a transmitted frequency have a phase difference. 180nm CMOS model parameter and 1GHz are used to simulate them in HSpice. The simulation results show that the metastability happens in a latch and a flip-flop when input data change near the clock edges and there are intermediate states for a longer time as input data change closer at the clock edge. And the next stage can lose input data depending on environmental conditions such as temperature, processing variations, power supply, etc. The simulation results are very useful to design a mescochronous synchronizer for NoC.
Keywords
Metastability; Mesochronous frequency; Synchronizer; NoC;
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