Wave-pipelining: is it practical?

Abstract
Wave-pipelining has recently drawn considerable interest from both the academic and industrial communities as a method for high-speed pipelining without the use of intermediate latching. Although high-performance IC technologies, pipelined RISC and DSP architectures, and sophisticated CAD tools have enabled and driven several recent demonstration circuits, significant challenges remain before wave-pipelining will be used extensively in commercial chips. In this forum, we discuss whether these challenges are surmountable, and if so, what are the techniques that will be needed both now and with future VLSI technologies.

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