Ultra Low Power Designs Using Asynchronous Design Techniques (Welcome to the World Without Clocks)

Wire delay is beginning to dominate gate delay in current CMOS technologies. According to Moore's Law by 2016 CMOS feature size should be on the order of 22 nm with clock frequencies reaching around 28.7 GHz. Essentially bus-based interconnects are being stretched to the point where they cannot be scaled further. This paper presents challenges with the synchronous (clocked) designs and describes the techniques to overcoming the same with asynchronous (Clockless) design methodology. The paper proposes to redesign the synchronous interconnect to an asynchronous interconnect that should cater to tomorrow's needs of high speed and low power. These circuits work on Handshaking techniques. If not today SOC industry will be forced driven to this methodology tomorrow.

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