Power Management

NCL circuits deliver low power consumption. There are no clock trees or long control lines to drive, and NCL gates only switch when they are processing data. Because there are only monotonic transitions between data and NULL states, there is no glitching power. With its inherent ability to operate across wide ranges of power supply voltages, additional power savings are possible by dynamically matching power supply voltages to required data rates.

• 2 - 4x longer battery life
• More efficient use of available energy
• Lower current spikes
• Energy scavenging

Low-Noise Electromagnetic Interference

The more randomly distributed switching activity of clockless NCL circuits spreads the demand spectrum on the power bus, reducing power bus spikes, crosstalk, and EMI.

• Lower bit error rate for on-chip RF
• Lower power for on-chip RF
• Higher accuracy for on-chip analog
• Low noise/EMI
• Easier integration
• Higher security

Reliability

The logically determined and distributed nature of NCL leads to robust circuits with unparalleled insensitivity to variations in fabrication technology, temperature and operating voltage. This allows NCL products to excel in high reliability applications in harsh and varying environments.

• Delay insensitive
• No timing closure problems
• Robust operation

Systems-On-A-Chip (SoC)

Electronics markets are demanding SoC products: reducing all the electronics of a computer, or a cell phone to a single “mega-chip” — the next major breakthrough in cost and performance.

• Mutli-rate
• Data driven
• Low latency
• Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS)
• Reduced cost/time to market