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  • Interacting Self-Timed Pipelines and Elementary Coupling Control Modules

    Kazuhiro KOMATSU  Shuji SANNOMIYA  Makoto IWATA  Hiroaki TERADA  Suguru KAMEDA  Kazuo TSUBOUCHI  

     
    PAPER-VLSI Design Technology and CAD

      Vol:
    E92-A No:7
      Page(s):
    1642-1651

    The self-timed pipeline (STP) is one of the most promising VLSI/SoC architectures. It achieves efficient utilization of tens of billions of transistors, consumes ultra low power, and is easy-to-design because of its signal integrity and low electro-magnetic interference. These basic features of the STP have been proven by the development of self-timed data-driven multimedia processors, DDMP's. This paper proposes a novel scheme of interacting self-timed (clockless) pipelines by which the various distributed and interconnected pipelines can achieve highly functional stream processing in future giga-transistor chips. The paper also proposes a set of elementary coupling control modules that facilitate various combinations of flow-thru processing between pipelines, and then discusses the practicality of the proposed scheme through the LSI design of application modules such as a priority-based queue, a mutual interconnection network, and a pipelined sorter.