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EPSRC Reference: GR/L86326/01
Title: SELF-TIMED MICROCONTROLLERS
Principal Investigator: Robinson, Professor P
Other Investigators:
Mycroft, Professor A Moore, Professor S
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Project Partners:
Cambridge Consultants Ltd Pre Nexus Migration
Department: Computer Science and Technology
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 28 September 1998 Ends: 27 June 2002 Value (£): 332,843
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
VLSI Design
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Communications Electronics
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The goal of this research is to investigate and evaluate new methods for the design of asynchronous processors and their system software. Work funded by EPSRC grant GR/J62708 is investigating self-timed logic and has achieved a new architecture for self-timed processors, new circuit techniques for their implementation and new computer-aided design tools to support the methodology. We now want to carry this forward by evaluating the new techniques on more substantial processor designs and to broaden the investigation into the associated CAD tools for simulation and synthesis of self-timed architectures, together with new compiler technology. In particular, we want to explore designs for microcontrollers which exhibit the challenges of general processor design but are sufficiently simple to be tackled in a small project.
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