Synchronous design flow for globally asynchronous locally synchronous systems
Jonas Carlsson, Kent Palmkvist, Lars Wanhammar · 2006
Abstract: – In this paper, we introduce an efficient design flow for Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous systems, which can be used by designers without prior knowledge of asynchronous circuits. The design flow starts with a high-level description model of the system in Simulink and ends with a hardware implementation in an FPGA or a standard-cell ASIC. We have developed a tool in MATLAB, so that the designer easily can include asynchronous logic in a conventional synchronous design flow. The proposed design flow is currently used for implementing the physical layer for a wireless LAN.