Tutorial: Asynchronous Circuit Design and Methodology for Low Power IoE

Asynchronous circuits have characteristics that differ significantly from those of synchronous circuits in terms of their power and robustness to variations. This tutorial will show how it is possible to exploit these characteristics to design ultra-low-power and robust circuits in the scope of the Internet-of-Everything (IoE) and also Globally Asynchronous and Locally Synchronous architectures. More specifically, the aims of the tutorial are to give fundamentals of asynchronous circuits design and to detail design methodologies with practical low-power asynchronous circuits examples. At the end of the tutorial, attendees will be able to differentiate the usefulness of an asynchronous circuit compared to a synchronous one according to their application needs.