Computer Clocks Wind Down - It's growing harder and more costly to make computer clocks work right. The solution may be to eliminate clocks. Benefits: more performance, reliability; lower cost. But commercialization will be hard. [Computerworld] - http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,76931,00.html
It's Time for Clockless Chips - Computer chips without traditional clock face big barriers in coming into the mainstream; timeline, company list. [Technology Review] - http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/async/misc/technologyreview_oct_01_2001.html
Time for the Clockless Computer Chip - Brief article explains why such processors promise more speed, safety, security, miniaturization. [Dataweek] - http://dataweek.co.za/article.aspx?pklArticleId=2277
Freeing Computers from the Constraints of Time - Time is running out for the clocks that make our computers tick as scientists develop a new generation of hardware and software based on the simpler designs of the 1950s. [SpaceDaily] - http://www.spacedaily.com/news/time-02b.html
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc - Develops and sells chips and IP (intellectual property) for asynchronous logic circuits. California, USA. - http://www.fulcrummicro.com/
Theseus Logic, Inc. - Clockless electronics for power managed, low noise/EMI, secure and reusable circuits and systems. Florida, USA. - http://www.theseus.com/
Philips Gambit: Self-timing's Time is Here - Philips Research to spin off internal asynchronous chip design technology hoping for wide use in low-power devices. Internally called Tangram, now renamed Handshake Technology is a set of tools, cores, design expertise Philips used for over 10 years, sold - http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030331S0020
Nanocomputer Skips Clock - With components maybe as small as individual molecules, such computers will likely need new designs. [Technology Research News] - http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/042303/Nanocomputer_skips_clock_042303.html
The Asynchronous Bibliography - Database on circuits, almost 2000 items, download formats: BiBTeX, HTML, PDF, PostScript. Page links: web pages and sites, conferences, produced chips. - http://www.win.tue.nl/async-bib/
VLSI Research Group - Develops high-speed circuit technologies and design methods to enable novel architectures. Circuit technologies: asynchronous, low-power, communication links. Design methods: intellectual and computer-aided tools for design, implementation, test. [Sun Mic - http://research.sun.com/async/
Asynchronous Logic - Basic explanation of idea and benefits, with publications; by researcher David A. Kearney, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia. - http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~cisdak/nResearch/Async.html
Asynchronous Processor - Technical block diagram with linked text description. - http://www.jdm.homepage.dk/ascpu.htm
World’s First Flexible 8-bit Asynchronous Processor - Developed by Seiko Epson, uses low-temperature polysilicon thin-film transistors (LTPS-TFTs) on plastic substrate, energy use down 70%, Epson is researching uses for it. [Electronic Design Europe] - http://europe.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/9980/9980.html
Caltech Asynchronous VLSI Group - Research focusing on methods and tools for designing high-performance and low-energy asynchronous digital circuits. Home of MiniMIPS asynchronous MIPS R3000 RISC processor. [Department of Computer Science, Caltech] - http://www.async.caltech.edu/
MiniMIPS - Processor core based on MIPS I design, integrated in an FPGA, language is VHDL, speed is 50 MIPS. [LGPL, Opencores.org] - http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/minimips/overview/
Amulet - Series (1, 2e, 3, 3i) based on ARM design using micropipeline design style; released 1993; backwards instruction set compatible, runs extant binaries with no modification. [Advanced Processor Technologies Group, University of Manchester] - http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/processors/amulet/