Asynchronous Multithreaded Processor Cores for System Level Integration

A radical alternative based on an asynchronous design methodology is proposed for the design of future system level integration devices. An asynchronous multithreaded processor core is presented along with glimpses into some design issues for a multithreaded Java byte-code compiler. Such a platform expoits concurrency at diierent levels: between coarse-grained threads running on a multi-node processor, between medium-grained threads running on the thread processing units in each processor node, and between ne-grained threads running on the functional units in each thread processing unit. Such as platform implemented using an asynchronous design methodology is capable of delivering high performance at a competitive power consumption.