Asynchronous Circuit Design

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to Alain Martin and Chuck Seitz of Caltech, who turned me onto asynchronous design as an undergraduate. I would also like to thank my graduate advisors, Teresa Meng and David Dill of Stanford University, who taught me alternative ways of looking at asynchronous design. My former officemate, Peter Beerel (USC), through numerous heated discussions throughout the years, has taught me much.

I would like to thank Erik Brunvand (Utah), Steve Nowick (Columbia), Peter Beerel (USC), Wendy Belluomini (IBM), Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (Utah), Ken Stevens (Intel), Charles Dike (Intel), Jim Frenzel (U. of Idaho), Steven Unger (Columbia), Dong-Ik Lee (KJIST), and Tomohiro Yoneda (Titech) for their comments and advice on earlier versions of this manuscript. I'm also grateful to the comments and ideas that I received from my graduate students: Brandon Bachman, Jie Dai, Hans Jacobson, Kip Killpack, Chris Krieger, Scott Little, Eric Mercer, Curt Nelson, Eric Peskin, Robert Thacker, and Hao Zheng. I would like to thank the students in my course on asynchronous circuit design in the spring of 2000 for putting up with the rough version of this text. I am grateful to Sanjin Piragic for drawing many of the figures in the book. Many other figures are due to draw_astg by Jordi Cortadella (UPC) and dot by Eleftherios Koutsofios and Stephen North (AT&T).

I would like especially to thank my family, Ching and John, for being patient with me while I wrote this book. Without their love ...