Synchronization and Arbitration in Digital Systems

Index

ACMs, 125, 126, 194

Aggressor, 154, 161, 180

Al-Ghazali, 2

Arbiter

busy ring, 231, 232, 234, 237

cascaded, 227, 228, 229

clocked, 199

daisy-chain, 203, 238

definition, 200

distributed, 203

dynamic priority, 235, 241, 247, 248

four-phase, 218

lazy ring, 232, 233

multiway, 58, 204, 224, 225, 227, 230

ordered, 238

priority, 235

RGD, 211, 212, 214, 221, 228, 229, 230

ring, 203, 230

static priority, 241

sync-based, 222, 223

synopsis, 201

tree, 176, 203, 227, 229, 230, 250

two-phase, 214, 217

two-way, 204, 209, 211, 223, 227

Asynchronous reset, 135

Avoiding conflicts, 114

Back edge, 9, 34, 36, 47, 95, 96, 101, 107, 135

Balance point, 23, 33, 35, 37, 59, 65, 66, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 102, 140, 141

Baseline shift, 154

Basic MUTEX, 50

Bisection, 73, 74

Bit period, 155, 156, 157, 159, 161, 162

Bit rate, 172, 173, 179

Buridan, 2

Bus links, 145

Cgate, 184, 185, 186, 187, 192

Canonical structure of arbiters, 240

Channel, 126

Characteristic impedance, 160

Clock generators, 184

Clock recovery, 156, 159

Clock tree, 116, 150, 189, 190

Common mode noise, 160

Conflict detection, 114, 115, 200

Constant, 126

Cross-talk, 116, 153, 161, 164, 172, 180

Deep metastability, 9, 47, 83, 92, 93, 102

Delay insensitive, 157

Delay locked loop, 84, 89, 102

Differential link, 160

Digital oscilloscope, 21, 77, 83, 86

Disturbing metastability, 136

Dual rail, 241, 242

Dual-Rail, 157

Error function, 60

Event histogram, 78

Fairness, 201, 202, 203, 229, 238

FIFO, 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 190, 191