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In this paper we construct a new trace model of delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits inspired by Ebergen’s model in such a way that it satisfies the compositional properties of a category, with additional monoidal structure and further algebraic properties. These properties taken together lay a solid mathematical foundation for a diagrammatic approach to reasoning about asynchronous circuits, which represents a formalisation of common intuitions about asynchronous circuits and their properties.
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Ghica, D.R. (2013). Diagrammatic Reasoning for Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits. In: Coecke, B., Ong, L., Panangaden, P. (eds) Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations. The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38164-5_5
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