Compositional design of asynchronous circuits from behavioural concepts
Jonathan R. Beaumont, Andrey Mokhov, Danil Sokolov, Alex Yakovlev · 2015
Asynchronous circuits can be useful in many applications, however, they are yet to be widely used in industry. The main reason for this is a steep learning curve for concurrency models, such Signal Transition Graphs, that are developed by the academic community for specification and synthesis of asynchronous circuits. In this paper we introduce a compositional design flow for asynchronous circuits using concepts - a set of formalised descriptions for system requirements. Our aim is to simplify the process of capturing system requirements in the form of a formal specification, and promote the concepts as a means for design reuse. The proposed design flow is applied to the development of an asynchronous buck converter.