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Design and Evaluation of Two Asynchronous Token Ring Adapters

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Alex Yakovlev

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to design and measure the performance of two speed-independent asynchronous adapters for a communication architecture with distributed arbitration. The protocol is defined on the principles similar to those of the Token Ring but attempts to exploit the asynchronous design approach in improving the operational scalability of the system. Its two versions considered in this paper reflect the trade-off between the greater functional capability and low-latency requirements. We show the power of Signal Transition Graphs in specifying, verifying and synthesizing the adapter's logic. Using timing information obtained at the implementation level, we finally estimate the performance of the token-ring architecture with point-to-point interconnection.


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Author(s): Carrion C, Yakovlev A

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 1997

Pages: 16

Print publication date: 01/01/1997

Source Publication Date: 1997

Report Number: 562

Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/562.pdf


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