israel@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Paul Israel) (03/05/91)
Does anyone have any experience working with Signetics Metastable-Immune components? I'm particularly interested in the 74F5074, their dual D flip-flop. Does the part actually perform as promised? What sort of settling times occur on the outputs when an internal metastable condition exists? For those of you not familiar with these parts, Signetics markets them as 'synchronizing circuits', for use in converting asynchronous signals to synchronized signals without risk of a metastable condition. They claim that should a metastable condition be produced internally, the outputs will not oscillate or glitch, and the last state will be maintained until the internal metastable is resolved. If anyone has used these parts, please let me know what you think of them. Thanks in advance. -- Paul Israel Renegade Systems, 434 South Bernardo Ave, #2 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Disclaimer: "Who, me? I wasn't even there!" ctnews!mitisft!hamster!israel