Tiempo offers three families of products and services.
Clockless Components (IP)
- Microcontrollers, microprocessors
- Misc. interfaces
- Crypto-processors (DES, 3DES, AES, RSA, ECC)*
Design Services
- Missions to evaluate the benefits of Tiempo asynchronous technology on customer chip(s) (feasibility design studies with estimation of power & noise gains and silicon area)
- Customization of Tiempo component(s)
- Design of customer block(s)/circuit(s) (with/without integration in synchronous designs)
EDA Tools for Clockless Design
- Fully automated synthesis tool
- Fully integrated in standard EDA flows
| Properties of Tiempo IPs | Customer benefits |
| Delay insensitive logic Resistance to high PVT** variations | Adapted to nanometric technologies with high variability (≤ 65 nm) Adapted to power systems with variable supply voltage |
| Low power consumption Low average consumption Low current peaks | Adapted to systems with strong power constraints (e.g. mobile handsets, smartcards…) |
| Reduced noise Low electromagnetic emission/susceptibility | Adapted to systems with strong EMC/EMI/EMS*** constraints (e.g., in the automobile industry) |
| Reactive (sleep-mode by default, immediate wake-up) | No need for power domain management |
| No clock | Allow flexible and modular design of NoC & SoC |
| Security: resistance to attacks through differential power analysis and fault injections | Adapted to secured systems (e.g., smartcards) |
* DES = Data Encryption Standard, 3DES = Triple DES, AES = Advanced Encryption Standard, RSA = Rivest Shamir Adleman, ECC = Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Ciphering)
** Process Voltage Temperature
*** Electromagnetic Compatibility/Interference/Susceptibility