• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.548-557
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• 2018

In this paper, Asynchronous Self-Power Gating technique (ASPG) is used to reduce consumption power in asynchronous digital watch application. The power gating control signal is automatically generated by internal system operation characteristics instead of using replica circuit delay or four-phase handshaking protocol. Isolation cell is designed to insert it between power gating domain and normal operation domain. By using self-power gating circuit, asynchronous digital watch application consumes very low power and maintains data during sleep mode. The comparison results show the proposed ASPG technique saves leakage power up to 40.47% and delay time is reduced to 71% compared to the conventional circuit.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.759-762
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• 1998

In this paper, a SL-DCVSL (static latched differential cascode voltage switch logic) circuit for the asynchronous pipeline is proposed. The proposed SL-DCVSL circuit is a slightly modified version of the DCVSL circuit, and used to improve the storage capability of the precharged functional blocks. The proposed SL-DCVSL has more robust storage characteristics compared to the conventional LDCVSL (latched DCVSL〔2〕). The operation of the proposed circuit is verified by simulating the asynchronous FIFO (First-In First-Out) structure.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.480-490
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• 2013

As technology evolves into the deep submicron level, synchronous circuit designs based on a single global clock have incurred problems in such areas as timing closure and power consumption. An asynchronous circuit design methodology is one of the strong candidates to solve such problems. To verify the feasibility and efficiency of a large-scale asynchronous circuit, we design a fully clockless 32-bit processor. We model the processor using an asynchronous HDL and synthesize it using a tool specialized for asynchronous circuits with a top-down design approach. In this paper, two microarchitectures, basic and enhanced, are explored. The results from a pre-layout simulation utilizing 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology show that the performance and power consumption of the enhanced microarchitecture are respectively improved by 109% and 30% with respect to the basic architecture. Furthermore, the measured power efficiency is about 238 ${\mu}W$/MHz and is comparable to that of a synchronous counterpart.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1125-1131
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• 2011

This paper presents a control theoretic approach to realizing fault tolerance in asynchronous sequential circuits. The considered asynchronous circuit is assumed to work in space environment and is subject to faults caused by total ionizing dose (TID) effects. In our setting, TID effects cause permanent changes in state transition characteristics of the asynchronous circuit. Under a certain condition of reachability redundancy, it is possible to design a corrective controller so that the closed-loop system can maintain the normal behavior despite occurrences of TID faults. As a case study, the proposed control scheme is applied to an asynchronous arbiter implemented in FPGA.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 2001

In this paper, we describe the generation method of interface logic which replace between IP & IP handshaking signal with asynchronous logic circuit. Especially, we suggest the new asynchronous sequential "Waveform to VHDL" code creation algorithm by flow chart conversion : Wave2VHDL - if only mixed asynchronous timing waveform is presented the level type input and pulse type input for handshaking, we convert waveform to flowchart and then replace with VHDL code according to converted flowchart. Also, we confirmed that asynchronous electronic circuits are created by applying extracted VHDL source code from suggest algorithm to conventional domestic/abroad CAD Tool, Finally, we assured the simulation result and the suggest timing diagram are identical.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2014

Conventional synchronous circuits in low power required systems such as sensor systems cannot only satisfy the timing requirement of the low voltage digital systems, but also they may generate wrong outputs under the influence of PVT variations and aging effects. Therefore, in the reliable ultra-low power design, asynchronous circuits have recently been reconsidered as a solution for scaling issues. However, it is not easy to totally replace synchronous circuits with asynchronous circuits in the digital systems, so the interfacing between the synchronous and asynchronous circuits is indispensable for the digital systems. This paper presents a new design for interfacing between asynchronous circuits and synchronous circuits, and the interface circuits are applied to a $4{\times}4$ multiplier logic designed using 0.11um technology.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.10
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• pp.195-204
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• 1996

We suggest a transform method form asynchronous finite state machines (AFSMs) into signal transition graphs (STGs) for speed-independent circuit synthesis. Existing works synthesize nodes in the state graph increases exponentially as the number of input and output signals increases. To overcome the problem of the exponential data complexity, we transform AFSMs into STGs so that the previous synthesis algorihtm form STGs can be applied.Accoridng to the experimental results, it turns out that our synthesis method produces more efficient circuit than the previous synthesis methods.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

The delay-insensitive Null Convention Logic (NCL) asynchronous design as one of innovative asynchronous logic design methodologies has many advantages of inherent robustness, power consumption, and easy design reuses. However, transistor-level structures of conventional NCL gate cells have weakness of low speed, high area overhead or high wire complexity. Therefore, this paper proposes a new high-speed NCL gate cells designed at transistor level for high-speed, low area overhead, and low wire complexity. The proposed NCL gate cells have been compared to the conventional NCL gates in terms of circuit delay, area and power consumption.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.931-933
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• 2004

In a SoC environment, asynchronous design techniques offer solutions for problems of synchronous design techniques. Asynchronous FIFOs have the advantages of easier interconnection methods and higher throughput than synchronous ones. Low latency and high throughput are two imp ortant standards in asynchronous FIFOs. We present low latency asynchronous FIFO in the paper, which optimizes GasP[6]. Pre-layout of HSPICE simulations of a 8-stage FIFO on 1-bit datapath using Anam's 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ technology indicates 17% lower latency than GasP.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.57-64
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a RZ/HRZ mixture data transmission method for the asynchronous circuit design to reduce Power consumption. The dual-rail data with Rf decoding scheme is used to design asynchronous circuit, and it is easy to get a completion signal of the data validity from the native data as contrasted with sin91e-rail. However, the dual-rail scheme suffers from large chip area and increasing of Power consumption from all signals by the switching of the return-to-zero. We need to diminish number of circuit switching. The proposed RZ/HRZ data transmission reduces a switching activity to about 50% and it shows 23% lower power consumption than the conventional dual-rail coding with RZ's.