A self-control structure for pipeline control

This paper proposes a circuit structure which can be used for both synchronous and asynchronous pipeline control. It is a self-control structure with embedded delay network to achieve self-circulation, and a pipeline can be controlled by the structure with the interconnection of adjacent stages. This paper first proposes the basic circuit structure, then a linear pipeline and basic models of nonlinear pipelines such as JOIN and FORK are designed, performance of linear pipeline based on this structure is analyzed, and at last a 16-bit DSP with the structure is designed to prove the validity of the structure.