Wave-pipelining is a method of high-performance

circuit design which implements pipelining in logic without the

use of intermediate latches or registers. The combination of

high-performance integrated circuit (IC) technologies, pipelined

architectures, and sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD)

tools has converted wave-pipelining from a theoretical oddity

into a realistic, although challenging, VLSI design method. This

paper presents a tutorial of the principles of wave-pipelining and

a survey of wave-pipelined VLSI chips and CAD tools for the

synthesis and analysis of wave-pipelined circuits