22 Sep
2001
22 Sep
'01
7:40 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:01:28AM -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
One caution is certainly warranted, however. Fully
synchronous design became
the default method of designing circuits of anysubstance in the mid-late '80's.
The pendulum may be swinging back toward asynchronous design.
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0921f.html#item13
The ACM article mentions the increased speed of asynchronous designs. As
you said, they are hard to analyze (and keep running); the article turns
that into an advantage by pointing out that hackers can't analyze them
easily either. :)
I don't necessarily buy the reasoning (these articles are pretty
superficial) but the point still bears thinking about.
-- Derek