Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

For a useful primer on circuit design, see Optimize your DSPs for power and performance. To learn how power and performance vary with voltage and temperature, see Push performance and power beyond the ...

Abstract: Asynchronous systems are designed without any global clock signal. Here computation is achieved by a series of events represented by signal transition edges; hence the speed of computation ...

Abstract: Interest in asynchronous circuit design is increasing due to its promise of efficient designs. The quiescent nature of asynchronous circuits allows them to remain in a stable state until ...

Micropipelines. Ivan E. Sutherland: The Turing Award Lecture. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 6, pages 720¿738; June 1989. Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. Special issue of Proceedings of ...

This project, developed as part of the EN2111 Electronic Circuit Design module, implements a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter) protocol for data transmission between two FPGA boards.

If we enable each J-K flip-flop to toggle based on whether or not all preceding flip-flop outputs (Q) are “high,” we can obtain the same counting sequence as the asynchronous circuit without the ...