On 22 Mar 2010 at 19:52, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
What's wrong with pulse or async logic designs? I
personally find them
fascinating, but I've never gotten to play with an implementation of
one... Are there problems with designing like this that made people
switch to sync designs? Anyone know of any good books on
non-synchronous logic design?
Not off the top of my head, but I seem to recall that the Philco
TRANSAC System 2000 of a half-century ago was implemented
asynchronously. There's a few documents on the 212 CPU on bitsavers.
--Chuck