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SUMMARY:Asynchronous Computation - Márton Erdos\, Churchill College
DTSTART:20180124T193000Z
DTEND:20180124T200000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Most modern integrated circuits perform computations efficient
 ly using synchronous (clocked) pipelines. These give a high throughput by 
 exploiting parallelism. The synchronous framework gives desirable design s
 emantics in most cases\, but has some inconvenient properties which make s
 ome problems difficult to solve\, and occasionally this results in an over
 ly complicated control logic. A good example is a FIFO between two differe
 nt clock domains.\n\nThis talk explores the asynchronous computation frame
 work\, from the basic ideas through transistor-level implementations of ba
 sic control structures to complex control blocks\, that make for extremely
  easy-to-read circuit diagrams resembling flowcharts. We will also discuss
  the main trade-offs involved in asynchronous circuit design.
LOCATION:Jock Colville Hall\, Churchill College
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