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Asynchronous circuits and theory surrounding is a part of several steps in integrated circuit design, a field of digital electronics engineering. Asynchronous circuits are contrasted with synchronous circuits, in which changes to the signal values in the circuit are triggered by repetitive pulses called a clock signal. Most digital devices ...
In digital computing, the Muller C-element (C-gate, hysteresis flip-flop, coincident flip-flop, or two-hand safety circuit) is a small binary logic circuit widely used in design of asynchronous circuits and systems. It outputs 0 when all inputs are 0, it outputs 1 when all inputs are 1, and it retains its output state otherwise.
The memory model defined in the C11 and C++11 standards specify that a C or C++ program containing a data race has undefined behavior. [3] [4] A race condition can be difficult to reproduce and debug because the end result is nondeterministic and depends on the relative timing between interfering threads. Problems of this nature can therefore ...
In digital logic, a hazard is an undesirable effect caused by either a deficiency in the system or external influences in both synchronous [citation needed] and asynchronous circuits. [ 1 ] : 43 Logic hazards are manifestations of a problem in which changes in the input variables do not change the output correctly due to some form of delay ...
A quasi-delay-insensitive circuit (QDI circuit) is an asynchronous circuit design methodology employed in digital logic design.Developed in response to the performance challenges of building sub-micron, multi-core architectures with conventional synchronous designs, QDI circuits exhibit lower power consumption, extremely fine-grain pipelining, high circuit robustness against process–voltage ...
In metastable states, the circuit may be unable to settle into a stable '0' or '1' logic level within the time required for proper circuit operation. As a result, the circuit can act in unpredictable ways, and may lead to a system failure, sometimes referred to as a "glitch". [2] Metastability is an instance of the Buridan's ass paradox.
Various problems in the synthesis of asynchronous circuits from STG specification have been investigated. One of the ways for their classification is based on the analysis approaches used to represent the state space of the STG specification, such as explicit state spaces, unfolding of the underlying Petri net, structural analysis of Petri nets ...
In other words, a problem with input size n is in NC if there exist constants c and k such that it can be solved in time O((log n) c) using O(n k) parallel processors. Stephen Cook [1] [2] coined the name "Nick's class" after Nick Pippenger, who had done extensive research [3] on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size. [4]