Performance Analysis of Mixed Asynchronous Synchronous Systems
J. Teich, S. Sriram, L. Thiele and M. Martin
In Proc. 1994 IEEE Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing
ABSTRACT
The paper is concerned with the timing analysis of a class digital systems we call mixed asynchronous{synchronous systems. In such a system, each computation module is either synchronous (i.e. clocked) or asynchronous (i.e. selftimed). The communication between modules is assumed to be selftimed for all modules. We introduce a graph model called MASS for describing the timing behaviour of such architectures. The graph contains two kinds of nodes, synchronous and asynchronous nodes. The operation model of a MASS is similar to that of a timed marked graph, however, additional schedule constraints are imposed on synchronous nodes: A synchronous node can only record at ticks of its local module clock. We analyze the behaviour of MASS, in particular period, periodicity and maximal throughput rate.
