mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (10/05/89)
>... folks from CALTECH on using the self-timed (asynchronous) >circuits that they've been pushing to build a processor. >Any comments on this work out there? Any comments on self-timed >circuits themselves? Self-timed circuits have been included in commercially available microprocessors for quite some time. The R2000 has some, and I doubt it was the first; probably the 8086 / 8088 used s.t. ckts back in '81. Of course, every time you buy a DRAM you're buying a temperature and voltage-variable chain of about 60 self-timed circuits. This may make you feel {less, more} comfortable about the robustness and reliability of s.t. circuits. -- -- Mark Johnson MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 991-0208 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark}