In this paper we investigate the behaviour of GALS (Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous) systems in the context of VLSI circuits. The specification of a system is given in the form of a Petri net. Our aim is to re-design the system to optimise signal management, by grouping together concurrent events. Looking at the concurrent reachability graph of the given Petri net, we are interested i...

Since Network-on-Chip (NoC) uses network interfaces (NIs) to improve the design productivity, by now, there have been a few papers addressing the design and implementation of a NI module. However, none of them considered the difference of address encoding methods between NoC and the traditional bus-shared architecture. On the basis of this difference, in the paper, we introduce a transmit mecha...

ABSTRACT: Contemporary digital systems must necessarily be based on the “System-on-Chip” (SoC) concept. Especially in relation to the aerospace industry, these systems must overcome some additional engineering challenges concerning reliability, safety and low power. An interesting style for aerospace SoC design is the GALS (Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous) paradigm, which can be used...

In this paper we present the syntax, semantics, and compilation of a new system-level programming language called SystemJ. SystemJ is a multiclock language supporting the Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) model of computation. The synchronous reactive (SR) model is used for synchronous parts of the modelled system, and those parts, which represent individual clock-domains, are co...

In this paper we propose a method to generate pausible clock based GALS wrapper circuits from the synchronous module’s Verilog specification code automatically. We first parse the input module specification and produce wrapper circuit components based on the specification of entered synchronous module. Existing methods for generation of the wrapper circuit waste the die size because they instan...

The voltage/frequency island (VFI) design paradigm is a practical architecture for energy-efficient networks-on-chip (NoC) systems. In VFI-based NoC systems, each island can be operated with different voltage and clock frequency and thus it is important to carefully partition processing elements (PEs) into islands based on their workloads and communications. In this paper, we propose an energy-...

in this research 600 staff of an educational office (distric seven) were being studied before and after they were educated about breast self-examination. necessary information was gathered before and after they were educated through questionnaires. the result of the study showed that the average scores of their awareness before and after they were educated was 42.3 and 44.2, respectively. hence...