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Vorträge und Posterpräsentationen (mit Tagungsband-Eintrag):

R. Najvirt, A. Steininger:
"How to Synchronize a Pausible Clock to a Reference";
Vortrag: 21st IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, Mountain View, CA; 04.05.2015 - 06.05.2015; in: "21st IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems", (2015), 8 S.



Kurzfassung englisch:
Pausible clocking is an efficient means for metastability
free communication in heterochronous GALS systems.
State-of-the-art implementations are based on ring oscillators,
which suffer from bad frequency stability and accuracy. Building
a stable pausible clock by simply switching a crystal based
clock source, on the other hand, has been shown to incur
metastability issues, thus rendering pausible clocking no better
than a conventional synchronizer approach.
In this paper we propose a solution that provides the stability
and accuracy of a crystal based clock while still being free from
metastable upsets. It is based on a ring oscillator that can be
paused and resumed just like in the traditional approach, but
is synchronized with a crystal clock during its stable phases of
operation. We will present an appropriate circuit implementation
and carefully analyze its operation. We will give evidence that
the circuit switches on and off as fast as the traditional one, and
that the clock output does not suffer from metastable voltage or
spurious pulses at any time.

Erstellt aus der Publikationsdatenbank der Technischen Universität Wien.