An Asynchronous Microprocessor in Gallium Arsenide

Tierno, Jose A. and Martin, Alain J. and Borkovic, Drazen and Lee, Tak Kwan (1993) An Asynchronous Microprocessor in Gallium Arsenide. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology. [CaltechCSTR:1993.cs-tr-93-38]

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Abstract

In this paper, several techniques for designing asynchronous circuits in Gallium Arsenide are presented. Several new circuits were designed, to implement specific functions necessary to the design of a full microprocessor. A sense-amplifier, a completion tree, and a general circuit structure for operators specified by production rules are introduced. These circuit were used and tested in a variety of designs, including two asynchronous microprocessors and two asynchronous static RAM's. One of the microprocessor runs at over 100 MIPS with a power consumption of 2 Watts.

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Deposited On:	25 April 2001
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