The synchronous vs. asynchronous design debate erupts every now and then, usually when a vocal minority swears by asynchronous design, often claiming that asynchronous design delivers higher ...

As system-on-chip (SoC) designs grow larger, designers must grapple with serious global timing problems, the effect of wire loading and timing delays and the performance hit associated with supporting ...

MONTEREY, Calif. — A shift to asynchronous design styles is "inevitable" for digital computing systems, according to Ivan Sutherland, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

A lack of suitable design tools and the dominance of a design culture favouring synchronous design are the factors limiting the broader use of asynchronous, or clockless, technology in chips.

Conventional chips are inefficient. Governed by a clock signal that wakes up every component with each tick, regardless of whether or not it is actually needed for the task at hand, they run at the ...

There are a number of interesting technologies to keep an eye on in term of how and when they could be adopted for use in SoC design today, some of which include gallium arsenide, GPGPUs, 3D ICs and ...

In the proper context, asynchronous logic in SoC design today can provide benefits. But what about impact on design tools and flows? In the right situation, using asynchronous logic makes a lot of ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

The synchronous vs. asynchronous design debate erupts every now and then, usually when a vocal minority swears by asynchronous design, often claiming that asynchronous design delivers higher ...