ARM996HS: The first licensable, clockless 32-bit processor core

IEEE Micro

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 58-68

  Bink, Arjan ^a   York, Richard ^b  

^a Handshake Solutions   (Netherlands)

^b ARM ^*

Author keywords

AMBA; ARM; Asynchronous; Circuit design; Clockless; Haste; Low EME; Low power; Processor; SoC; TiDE; VLSI

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; ROBUST CONTROL; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CONVENTIONAL SYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT DESIGN; PROCESSOR CORE;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 34548230949     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2007.28     Document Type: Article

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