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    • Evaluation of A+B=K conditions without carry propagation 

      Cortadella, Jordi; Llaberia Griñó, José M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1992-11)
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      The response time of parallel adders is mainly determined by the carry propagation delay. The evaluation of conditions of the type A+B=K is addressed. Although an addition is involved in the comparison, it is shown that ...
    • From synchronous to asynchronous: an automatic approach 

      Cortadella, Jordi; Kondratyev, Alex; Lavagno, Luciano; Lwin, Kelvin; Sotiriou, Christos P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004)
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      This paper presents a methodology to derive asynchronous circuits from optimized synchronous circuits by replacing the clock distribution tree by a handshaking network. A case study shows the applicability of the method ...
    • Hierarchical gate-level verification of speed-independent circuits 

      Roig Mansilla, Oriol; Cortadella, Jordi; Pastor Llorens, Enric (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1995)
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      This paper presents a method for the verification of speed-independent circuits. The main contribution is the reduction of the circuit to a set of complex gates that makes the verification time complexity depend only on ...
    • Identifying state coding conflicts in asynchronous system specifications using Petri net unfoldings 

      Kondratyev, Alex; Cortadella, Jordi; Kishinevsky, Michael; Lavagno, Luciano; Taubin, Alexander; Yakovlev, Alex (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998)
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      State coding conflict detection is a fundamental part of synthesis of asynchronous concurrent systems from their specifications as signal transition graphs (STGs), which are a special kind of labelled Petri nets. The paper ...
    • Improving performance guarantees in wormhole mesh NoC designs 

      Panic, Milos; Hernández, Carles; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Quiñones, Eduardo; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Wormhole-based mesh Networks-on-Chip (wNoC) are deployed in high-performance many-core processors due to their physical scalability and low-cost. Delivering tight and time composable Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) estimates ...
    • Individual flip-flops with gated clocks for low power datapaths 

      Lang, Tomás; Cortadella, Jordi; Musoll Cinca, Enric (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1997-06)
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      Energy consumption has become one of the important factors in digital systems, because of the requirement to dissipate this energy in high-density circuits and to extend the battery life in portable systems such as devices ...
    • Logic decomposition of speed-independent circuits 

      Kondratyev, Alex; Cortadella, Jordi; Kishinevsky, Michael; Lavagno, Luciano; Yakovlev, Alex (1999-02)
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      Logic decomposition is a well-known problem in logic synthesis, but it poses new challenges when targeted to speed-independent circuits. The decomposition of a gate into smaller gates must preserve not only the functional ...
    • Logic design of asynchronous circuits 

      Cortadella, Jordi; Yakovlev, Alex; Garside, Jim (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)
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      Summary form only given. This tutorial aims at motivating the audience to consider asynchronous circuits as a competitive alternative to solve some of the design problems inherent to submicron technologies. One of the main ...
    • More than Moore. Experience on material implication computing with an electromechanical memristor emulator 

      Zuin Castillo, Stefano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-09)
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      El final de la Ley de Moore es un hecho a tener en cuenta. Quizás, los Nanowire FETs pueden extender la vida del transistor pero no indefinidamente. Es por eso que es necesario encontrar un nuevo dispositivo lógico además ...
    • Optimizing CMOS circuits for low power using transistor reordering 

      Musoll Cinca, Enric; Cortadella, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1996)
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      This paper addresses the optimization of a circuit for low power using transistor reordering. The optimization algorithm relies on a stochastic model of a static CMOS gate that includes the power internal nodes of the gate. ...
    • Partial order based approach to synthesis of speed-independent circuits 

      Semenov, Alex; Yakovlev, Alex; Pastor Llorens, Enric; Peña Basurto, Marco Antonio; Cortadella, Jordi; Lavagno, Luciano (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1997)
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      This paper introduces a novel technique for synthesis of speed-independent circuits from their Signal Transition Graph specifications. The new method uses partial order in the form of the STG-unfolding segment to derive ...
    • Petrify: a tool for manipulating concurrent specifications and synthesis of asynchronous controllers 

      Cortadella, Jordi; Kishinevsky, Michael; Kondratyev, Alex; Lavagno, Luciano; Yakovlev, Alex (1997-03)
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      Petrify is a tool for (1) manipulating concurrent specifications and (2) synthesis and optimization of asynchronous control circuits. Given a Petri Net (PN), a Signal Transition Graph (STG), or a Transition System (TS) it ...
    • Polynomial algorithms for the synthesis of hazard-free circuits from signal transition graphs 

      Pastor Llorens, Enric; Cortadella, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1993)
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      Methods for the synthesis of asynchronous circuits from signal transition graphs (STGs) have commonly used the state graph to solve the two main steps of this process: the state assignment problem and the generation of ...
    • Reusing cached schedules in an out-of-order processor with in-order issue logic 

      Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Juan, Toni; Navarro Guerrero, Juan José (2009)
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      The complex and powerful out-of-order issue logic dismisses the repetitive nature of the code, unlike what caches or branch predictors do. We show that 90% of the cycles, the group of instructions selected by the issue ...
    • Scheduling and resource binding for low power 

      Musoll Cinca, Enric; Cortadella, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1995)
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      Decisions taken at the earliest steps of the design process may have a significant impact on the characteristics of the final implementation. This paper illustrates how power consumption issues can be tackled during the ...
    • State-based encoding of large asynchronous controllers 

      Moreno, Albert; Cortadella, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-09-28)
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      State encoding is one of the fundamental problems in the synthesis of asynchronous controllers. The requirement for a correct hazard-free implementation imposes severe constraints on the way encoding signals can be inserted ...
    • Support-reducing decomposition for FPGA mapping 

      Machado, Lucas; Cortadella, Jordi (2020-01)
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      Decomposition is a technology-independent process, in which a large complex function is broken into smaller, less complex functions. The costs of two-level or factored-form representations (cubes and literals) are used in ...
    • Synchronous elastic networks 

      Krstic, Sava; Cortadella, Jordi; Kishinevsky, Michael; O'Leary, John (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006)
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      We formally define - at the stream transformer level - a class of synchronous circuits that tolerate any variability in the latency of their environment. We study behavioral properties of networks of such circuits and prove ...
    • Synthesis of speed-independent circuits from STG-unfolding segment 

      Semenov, Alex; Yakovlev, Alex; Pastor Llorens, Enric; Peña Basurto, Marco Antonio; Cortadella, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1997)
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      This paper presents a novel technique for synthesis of speed-independent circuits. It is based on partial order representation of the state graph called STG-unfolding segment. The new method uses approximation technique ...
    • Technology mapping for speed-independent circuits: Decomposition and resynthesis 

      Kondratyev, Alex; Cortadella, Jordi; Kishinevsky, Michael; Lavagno, Luciano; Yakovlev, Alex (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1997)
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      This paper presents theory and practical implementation of a method for multi-level logic synthesis of speed-independent circuits. An initial circuit implementation is assumed to satisfy the monotonous cover conditions but ...