Optimization of NULL convention self-timed circuits

SC Smith, RF DeMara, JS Yuan, D Ferguson, D Lamb - Integration, 2004 - Elsevier
Self-timed logic design methods are developed using Threshold Combinational Reduction
(TCR) within the NULL Convention Logic (NCL) paradigm. NCL logic functions are realized …

Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL): An ultra-low power asynchronous circuit design methodology

L Zhou, R Parameswaran, FA Parsan… - Journal of low power …, 2015 - mdpi.com
This paper develops an ultra-low power asynchronous circuit design methodology, called
Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL), also known as Sleep Convention Logic …

CMOS implementation of static threshold gates with hysteresis: A new approach

FA Parsan, SC Smith - … Conference on VLSI and System-on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a new approach to design static threshold gates with hysteresis, based
on integrating each pair of pull-up and pull-down transistor networks into one composite …

NULL convention multiply and accumulate unit with conditional rounding, scaling, and saturation

SC Smith, RF DeMara, JS Yuan, M Hagedorn… - Journal of Systems …, 2002 - Elsevier
Approaches for maximizing throughput of self-timed multiply–accumulate units (MACs) are
developed and assessed using the NULL convention logic paradigm. In this class of self …

Design of an FPGA logic element for implementing asynchronous NULL convention logic circuits

SC Smith - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two versions of a reconfigurable logic element are developed for use in constructing afield-
programmable gate array NULL convention logic (NCL) field-programmable gate array …

Ultra-low power delay-insensitive circuit design

AD Bailey, J Di, SC Smith… - 2008 51st Midwest …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a design methodology incorporating multi-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS)
into delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits in order to solve the problems of the …

A differential design for C-elements and NCL gates

S Yancey, SC Smith - 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates the performance, area and supply voltage scaling advantages of a
Differential Cascode Voltage-Switch Logic (DCVSL)-like design over previous methods for …

Speedup of self-timed digital systems using early completion

SC Smith - … IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An Early Completion technique is developed to significantly increase the throughput of
NULL Convention self-timed digital systems without impacting latency or compromising their …

Cost-aware synthesis of asynchronous circuits based on partial acknowledgement

Y Zhou, D Sokolov, A Yakovlev - Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Designing asynchronous circuits by reusing existing synchronous tools has become a
promising solution to the problem of poor CAD support in asynchronous world. A …

Bit-Wise MTNCL: An ultra-low power bit-wise pipelined asynchronous circuit design methodology

L Zhou, SC Smith, J Di - 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops an ultra-low power design methodology for bit-wise pipelined
asynchronous circuits, called bit-wise MTNCL, which combines multi-threshold CMOS …