From an extended study of asynchronous controllers to system level design: application to the design of digital and analog interfaces
چکیده
Asynchronous circuits have been proposed for many years and have successfully shown their robustness to delay variations making them a key solution for digital and mixed-signal circuits. More specifically, asynchronous circuits have demonstrated their efficiency in solving control, arbiter and interfaces issues. In order to make them more widely adopted, modeling and synthesis of asynchronous circuits have been proposed through different methodologies that we will firstly detail and discuss in this paper. We will then demonstrate the use of these specific methodologies for the synthesis and design of digital and analog-to-digital interfaces. The overall paper aims at providing a study and analysis of specific interfaces and their dedicated controllers for synchronization and energy management applications while discussing the asynchronous community positioning accordingly.