Latency Insensitive Protocols have been proposed as a viable mean to speed up large Systems-on-Chip where the limit in clock frequency is given by long global wires connecting together functional blocks. In this paper we keep the philosophy of Latency Insensitive Design and show that a drastic simplification can be done that results in even no need to implement any kind of protocol. By using a scheduling algorithm for the functional blocks activation we greatly reduce the routing resources demand of the old protocol, the area occupied by the sequential elements used to pipeline long interconnects and the complexity of the gating structure used to activate the modules.

A New Approach to Latency Insensitive Design / Casu, MARIO ROBERTO; Macchiarulo, Luca. - STAMPA. - (2004), pp. 576-581. (Intervento presentato al convegno Design Automation Conference (DAC) tenutosi a San Diego (CA, USA) nel 7-11 June 2004) [10.1145/996566.996725].

A New Approach to Latency Insensitive Design

CASU, MARIO ROBERTO;MACCHIARULO, Luca
2004

Abstract

Latency Insensitive Protocols have been proposed as a viable mean to speed up large Systems-on-Chip where the limit in clock frequency is given by long global wires connecting together functional blocks. In this paper we keep the philosophy of Latency Insensitive Design and show that a drastic simplification can be done that results in even no need to implement any kind of protocol. By using a scheduling algorithm for the functional blocks activation we greatly reduce the routing resources demand of the old protocol, the area occupied by the sequential elements used to pipeline long interconnects and the complexity of the gating structure used to activate the modules.
2004
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