The asynchronous implementation of a dataflow coprocessor
Portable and battery-powered applications call for long battery life, which makes the requirements of these devices shift from high performance to power efficiency. Many design methods and architectures have been proposed to increase the power efficiency of digital circuits. However, as peoples requests for low power will never be satisfied, power efficient design methods and architectures will never be enough. In this paper, a coprocessor, using a dataflow scheme and an asynchronous logic control, is embedded in a conventional microprocessor to minimize its power consumption. The circuit implementation of the asynchronous dataflow coprocessor and the communicate scheme with the outside environment are presented in the paper.
asynchronous logic dataflow.
LIU Yijun LIU Zhusong CHEN Pinghua LI Zhenkun
Faculty of Computer Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510006
国际会议
武汉
英文
992-997
2007-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）