The scaling of microchip technologies has enabled large scale systems-on-chip (SoC).
Network-on-chip (NoC) research addresses global communication in SoC, involving (i) a …

Metastability can arise whenever a signal is sampled close to a transition, leading to
indecision as to its correct value. Synchronizer circuits, which guard against metastability …

Design for Embedded Image Processing on FPGAs Bridge the gap between software and
hardware with this foundational design reference Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) …

Over the past ten years, as integrated circuits became increasingly more complex and
expensive, the industry began to embrace new design and reuse methodologies that are …

Conventional semiconductor-based digital electronics, with complementary metal oxide
semiconductor (CMOS) technology as the primary example, has experienced meteoric …

For more than 20 years, significant research effort was concentrated on globally
asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) design methodologies. But despite several …

Single-clocked digital systems are largely a thing of the past. Although most digital circuits
remain synchronous, many designs feature multiple clock domains, often running at different …

A new framework for understanding computing: a coherent set of principles spanning
technologies, domains, algorithms, architectures, and designs. Computing is usually viewed …

Today's networks of processors on and off chip, operating with independent clocks, need
effective synchronization of the data passing between them for reliability. When two or more …

This book is an introduction to the design of asynchronous circuits. It is an updated and
significantly extended version of an eight-chapter tutorial that first appeared as Part I in the …