Research Article

On Self-Timed Circuits in Real-Time Systems

Table 1

Example circuits summary.

4-bit counter 16-bit counter 16-bit LFSR

Logic elements 100 452 276
LEDR-gates 5 41 3
LEDR-registers
Logic depth 3 15 1
Performance 125 MHz
(8 ns)
42 MHz
(24 ns)
100 MHz
(10 ns)
Phase C2C Jitter 3.0 ns
(403 ps)
3.5 ns
(710 ps)
0 ns
(322 ps)
Count period 127 ns 1.6 ms 683  s
Count C2C Jitter  ps  ns  ns