Modeling and Validating Globally Asynchronous Design in Synchronous Frameworks

We lay a foundation for modeling and validation of asynchronous designs in a multi-clock synchronous programming model. This allows us to study properties of globally asynchronous systems using synchronous simulation and model-checking toolkits. Our approach can be summarized as automatic transformation of a design consisting of two asynchronously composed synchronous components into a fully synchronous multi-clock model preserving behavioral equivalence. The ultimate goal of this research is to provide the ability to model and build GALS systems in a fully synchronous design framework and deploy it on an asynchronous network preserving all properties of the system proven in the synchronous framework.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Paul Le Guernic, Jean-Pierre Talpin, Sandeep K. Shukla, Twan Basten
• Keywords: DATE 2004, Hardware, Synchronous Multi-clock Model, Synchronous Programming Model, Synchronous Simulation