In adiabatic switching [1], the registers as part of the circuitry, up to now have not been examined very well. Known approaches will be either only partially adiabatic [2], or integral part of the combinatorial logic, making automatic design hard [8, 5]. They are, however, a crucial part of the design. First, because in the registers information is stored, so here all the problems connected wi...

A fundamental aspect of any concurrent system is how processes communicate with each other. Ultimately, all communication involves concurrent reads and writes of shared memory cells, or registers. The stronger the guarantees provided by a register, the more useful it is to the user, but the harder it may be to implement in practice. Thus it is of interest to determine which types of registers c...

Built-in self-test (BIST) techniques have evolved as cost-eeective techniques for testing digital circuits. These techniques add test circuitry to the chip such that the chip has the capability to test itself. A prime concern in using BIST is the area overhead due to the modiication of normal registers to BIST registers. This paper proposes a high-level synthesis methodology that addresses this...

All consensus hierarchies in the literature assume that we have, in addition to copies of a given object, an unbounded number of registers. But why do we really need these registers? This paper considers what would happen if one attempts to solve consensus using various objects but without any registers. We show that under a reasonable assumption, objects like queues and stacks cannot emulate t...