EE 385B:  Seminar on Reconfigurable Architectures and Applications 

          April 20, 1994,  1:15 pm,  ERL 401

CMOS Wave Pipelining: Theory and Practice; Discussion of FPGA's

  The theory of wave pipelining will be briefly reviewed and
experimental results of CMOS wave pipelining will be described.
A maximum of 7 to 9 waves has been observed.  
  Then wave pipelining will be compared against regular
pipelining using analytical models. The trade-off between the two
approaches and the combination of regular and wave pipelining, called
"optimal pipelining", will be discussed.
  A discussion of the suggestion from M. Morf on using wave pipelining
for FPGA's and the necessary design tools will follow.