ACK - A Framework for High Level Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits

Papers

• Application-Specific Programmable Control for High-Performance Asynchronous Circuits.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In special asynchronous issue of Proceedings of IEEE, Vol.87, No.2, February 1999.
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• Asynchronous Microengines for Efficient High-level Control.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In proceedings of 17th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI), 1997.
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• Synthesis of Hazard-free Customized CMOS Complex-Gate Networks Under Multiple-Input Changes.  Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Hans Jacobson, Steven Nowick. In proceedings of 33rd Design Automation Conference, 1996.
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• A Technique for Synthesizing Distributed Burst-mode Circuits.  Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Hans Jacobson. In proceedings of 33rd Design Automation Conference, 1996.
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• An Asynchronous High Level Synthesis System Targeted at Interacting Burst-Mode Controllers (compressed PS 115k) Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Venkatesh Akella. In proceedings of International Conference on Hardware Description Languages (CHDL), 1995.

• Techniques for Synthesizing Efficient Burst-mode Circuits (compressed PS 140k) Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In proceedings of TAU'95, 1995.

• Peephole Optimization of Asynchronous Macromodule Networks (compressed PS 41k) Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Erik Brunvand. In proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 1994.

• OTHER ASYNC PAPERS (not directly related to ACK)

Technical Reports

• Application Specific Asynchronous Microengines for Efficient High-level Control.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, U.S.A., UUCS-97-007.
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• Asynchronous Circuit Design - A Case Study of a Framework Called ACK.  Hans Jacobson, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, May 1996.
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• Synthesis of Asynchronous Systems Targeting Finite State Machines.  Prabhakar Kudva, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Utah, U.S.A., Dec 1995.
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Talk-slides

• ACK - An Asynchronous Circuit Design Framework.  Presented at Sun Microsystems, San Francisco, U.S.A., by Hans Jacobson, March 1997.
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• ACK - A Framework for High Level Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits.  Invited talk presented at ASYNC'96, Aizu, Japan, by Dr. Alan Davis.
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