ARM99BHS: THE FIRST LICENSABLE, CLOCKLESS 32-BIT PROCESSOR CORE.

The article offers information on the first licensable, clockless 32-bit processor core, the ARM99BHS. It describes the architecture of ARM996HS and discusses the advantages of the clockless design methodology, including lower power consumption and decreased noise generation. According to the authors, the ARM996HS core is particularly interesting because it is clockless or self-clocked even though it can be embedded in a variety of technologies. Developed through the tide design flow, ARM996HS consumes about one-third the power of comparable synchronous, clock-gated, ARM cores implementing the same instruction set architecture.