The synchronous vs. asynchronous design debate erupts every now and then, usually when a vocal minority swears by asynchronous design, often claiming that asynchronous design delivers higher ...

San Mateo, Calif. — Two recent announcements, one by an established champion of asynchronous logic design and the other by a startup, indicate the gradual spread of asynchronous design into the ...

The future of asynchronous logic design is looking a little bit brighter. As the semiconductor industry struggles with mounting problems trying to achieve significant yields, higher performances and ...

There are a number of interesting technologies to keep an eye on in term of how and when they could be adopted for use in SoC design today, some of which include gallium arsenide, GPGPUs, 3D ICs and ...

Non-mainstream technologies can offer advantages over more commonly used approaches, but usually at some additional cost (otherwise they’d probably be mainstream). The additional cost could be in ...

When ICs first became available to electronics engineers 30 years ago, oscilloscopes could no longer do the job. Asynchronous logic designs with multiple pins gave rise to multipath race conditions.

Two companies at the Embedded Systems Conference this week have similar objectives, but for very different technologies. Coventor, a vendor of CAD and analysis tools for creating MEMS devices, ...