Overview

Describes the asynchronous digital logic of a serial router's transmitter and receiver.

Dependencies

The logic has been coded up in the Asynchronous Compiler Tools (ACT) language. The following tools, mentioned here and here work with ACT:

• cflat flattens ACT code into a set of production rules and net name definitions
• prsim performas a discrete event simulation of the production rules generated by cflat
• netgen generates a SPICE netlist from an ACT file

Run

To set up environment variables, run the following: For bash:

source setup.bash

For tcsh or csh:

source setup.csh

Afterwards, you should be able to simply run make to descend into the source tree and compile and run the suite of tests.

Repository structure

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├── aer                 // directory containing overall design
│   ├── layout          // files that generate the layout
│   ├── spice           // files for spice simulations
│   ├── test            // files for prsim testing
│   └── test_brainstorm // for prsim testing of de# context of brainstorm
├── aerv                // directory for receiver design
│   ├── benchmark
│   ├── layout
│   ├── spice
│   ├── test
│   └── test_brainstorm
├── aext                // directory for transmitter design
│   ├── benchmark
│   ├── layout
│   ├── spice
│   ├── test
│   └── test_brainstorm
├── doc                 // design documentation
├── interface           // interface designs
│   ├── layout
│   ├── spice
│   ├── test
│   └── test_brainstorm
├── lib                 // commonly used components
│   ├── layout
│   ├── spice
│   └── test
├── mem                 // neuron config memory design
├── scripts             // utility scripts
├── serial              // basic serial components
│   ├── benchmark
│   └── test
└── spice // spice simulations of basic elements