MONTEREY, Calif. — A shift to asynchronous design styles is “inevitable” for digital computing systems, according to Ivan Sutherland, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

In an era when power has become a fundamental design constraint, questions persist about whether asynchronous logic has a role to play. It is a design style said to have significant benefits and yet ...

Available with either an asynchronous or synchronous interface, the industry's first 18-Mbit dual-port RAMs come in a 512-kword by 36-bit configuration. The availability of both interfaces allows ...

Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

Housed in a 255-contact plastic ball-grid-array package that measures just 25 by 25 mm, the W82M32V-XBX multichip memory module provides up to 2 Mwords by 32 bits of asynchronous static memory. The ...

Asynchronous processors, which function without a global clock, have emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional synchronous architectures. Their design relies on handshake protocols and local ...

In the proper context, asynchronous logic in SoC design today can provide benefits. But what about impact on design tools and flows? In the right situation, using asynchronous logic makes a lot of ...