A high-performance encoder with priority lookahead

JG Delgado-Frias, J Nyathi - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we introduce a priority encoder that uses a novel priority lookahead (PL) scheme
to reduce delays associated with priority propagation. Two priority encoder approaches are …

On nanoelectronic architectural challenges and solutions

…, U Ruckert, S Roy, J Nyathi - 4th IEEE Conference on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the many challenges in the design of future nano architectures that
result from the use of nanoelectronic devices. The relations among these challenges are …

A hybrid wave pipelined network router

J Nyathi, JG Delgado-Frias - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel hybrid wave pipelined bit-pattern associative router (BPAR) is presented.
A router is an important component in communication network systems. The BPAR allows …

Serial addition: Locally connected architectures

V Beiu, S Aunet, J Nyathi, RR Rydberg… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper will briefly review nanoelectronic challenges while focusing on reliability. We
shall present and analyze a series of CMOS-based examples for addition starting from the …

A VLSI high-performance encoder with priority lookahead

JG Delgado-Frias, J Nyathi - … of the 8th Great Lakes Symposium …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we introduce a VLSI priority encoder that uses a novel priority lookahead scheme
to reduce the delay for the worst case operation of the circuit, while maintaining a very low …

Logic circuits operating in subthreshold voltages

J Nyathi, B Bero - Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
In this paper different logic circuit families operating in the subthreshold region are analyzed.
Their performance in terms of power and speed are of particular interest. The study …

On the advantages of serial architectures for low-power reliable computations

V Beiu, S Aunet, J Nyathi, RR Rydberg… - … Processors (ASAP'05 …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores low power reliable micro-architectures for addition. Power, speed, and
reliability (both defect- and fault-tolerance) are important metrics of system design, spanning …

A programmable dynamic interconnection network router with hidden refresh

JG Delgado-Frias, J Nyathi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A VLSI implementation of a programmable pipelined router scheme for parallel machine
interconnection networks is presented in this paper. The implementation is based on a dynamic …

[PDF][PDF] The vanishing majority gate trading power and speed for reliability

…, S Aunet, RR Rydberg III, A Djupdal, J Nyathi - Proc Int. Work. on Design …, 2005 - Citeseer
In this paper we are going to explore low-level implementation issues for fault-tolerant adders
based on multiplexing using majority gates (MAJ). We shall analyze the particular case of …

Decoupled dynamic ternary content addressable memories

JG Delgado-Frias, J Nyathi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The content addressable memory (CAM) is a memory in which data can be accessed on the
basis of contents rather than by specifying physical address. In the paper, five novel …