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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

F. Huemer, M. Schütz, A. Steininger:
"Revisiting Sorting Network based Completion Detection for 4 Phase Delay Insensitive Codes";
Talk: Austrochip Workshop on Microelectronics, Wien; 2015-09-28; in: "Austrochip Workshop on Microelectronics", (2015), 6 pages.



English abstract:
Completion detectors (CD) are key components
in delay insensitive asynchronous circuit design. Their task is
to check whether received data is complete and valid and to
inform subsequent logic of this condition. Hence, it is very
important to implement CDs in a resource-efficient way. One
way to achieve this goal is to make use of binary sorting
networks (SN). This work analyses and extends this approach.
We show which constraints in form of timing assumptions are
necessary if existing SN based solutions are used. Furthermore,
modifications to the existing solutions are proposed to obtain
quasi delay insensitive (QDI) circuits with minimum overheads.
In particular, this work elaborates generic design templates for
CDs for 4-phase m-of-n, incomplete m-of-n, Berger and Zero-
Sum codes.