Publication

Asynchronous Functional Coupling for Low Power Sensor Network Processors (2007)

Author(s): Shang D; Shin C; Wang P; Xia F; Koelmans A; Oh M; Kim S; Yakovlev A

    Abstract: This paper describes the design of an asynchronous implementation of a sensor network processor. The main purpose of this work is the reduction of power consumption in sensor network node processors and the research presented here tries to explore the suitability of asynchronous circuits for this purpose. The Handshake Solutions toolkit is used to implement an asynchronous version of a sensor processor. The design is made compact, trading area and leakage power savings with dynamic power costs, targeting the typical sparse operating characteristics of sensor node processors. It is then compared with a synchronous version of the same processor based on a reasonable power metric to guarantee accurate comparison. Apart from that, we also compare the design effort between synchronous and asynchronous implementations.

      • Date: 3-5 September 2007
      • Conference Name: 17th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
      • Volume: 4644
      • Pages: 53-63
      • Publisher: Springer
      • Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. abstract)
      • Bibliographic status: Published
      Staff

      Professor Alex Yakovlev
      Professor of Computer System Design