Design and Analysis of an Asynchronous Microcontroller

<p>This dissertation presents the design of the most complex MTNCL circuit to date. A fully functional MTNCL MSP430 microcontroller is designed and benchmarked against an open source synchronous MSP430. The designs are compared in terms of area, active energy, and leakage energy. Techniques to reduce MTNCL pipeline activity and improve MTNCL register file area and power consumption are introduced. The results show the MTNCL design to have superior leakage power characteristics. The area and active energy comparisons highlight the need for better MTNCL logic synthesis techniques.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Hinds, Michael

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Di, Jia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parkerson, James P.
• Thompson, Dale R.

• Applied sciences
• Asynchronous
• Integrated circuit
• Low power
• Microcontroller
• Msp430
• Mtncl
• VLSI and Circuits, Embedded and Hardware Systems

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1664

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uark.edu:etd-3203