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Article #2463Re: Asynchronous cpu
From: Paul Campbell
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 08:36
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 08:36
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In article <5241@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@freal.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes: >In the June 89 SIGARCH there's an article by Martin, Burns and a couple >of other folks from CALTECH on using the self-timed (asynchronous) >circuits that they've been pushing at CALTECH to build a processor. >The paper and chip look interesting, but there's a lack of details. I liked the bit when they put it in liquid nitrogen and got about twice as many MIPS out of it (being self-timed it has no clocks and only depends on internal delays to slow it down). Of course self-timed logic takes up more space .... >Any comments on this work out there? Any comments on self-timed >circuits themselves? Read this year's Turing Address in CACM a few months back. Paul -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: D3213 "Free Market": n. (colloq.) a primitive fertility goddess worshipped by an obscure cult in the late 20th C. It's chief priest 'Dow Jones' was eventually lynched by an enraged populace during an economic downturn (early 21st C).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Asynchronous cpu Message-ID: <421@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 5 Oct 89 08:36:58 GMT References: <5241@dime.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 23