Pipeline synchronization

Abstract

Pipeline synchronization is a simple, low-cost, high-bandwidth, high-reliability solution to interfaces between synchronous and asynchronous systems, or between synchronous systems operating from different clocks. The technique can sustain maximum communication bandwidth while achieving an arbitrarily low, non-zero probability of synchronization failure, P/sub f/, with the price in both latency and chip area being /spl Oscr/(log 1/P/sub f/). Pipeline synchronization has been successfully applied to high-performance inter-computer communication in multicomputers and local-area networks.