DocumentCode
1112950
Title
Anomalous Behavior of Synchronizer and Arbiter Circuits
Author
Chaney, T.J. ; Molnar, C.E.
Issue
4
fYear
1973
fDate
4/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
421
Lastpage
422
Abstract
Observations are shown of oscillatory and metastable behavior of flip-flops in response to logically undefined input conditions such as those that occur in synchronizers and arbiters. Significant systems failures have resulted from this fundamentally inescapable problem that is generally not appreciated by system designers and users.
Keywords
Asynchronous interactions, binary switching time, flip-flop metastable region, interrupt failure, synchronizer failure mode.; Circuits; Clocks; Computer aided manufacturing; Displays; Flip-flops; Logic; Metastasis; Multiprocessing systems; Oscilloscopes; Synchronization; Asynchronous interactions, binary switching time, flip-flop metastable region, interrupt failure, synchronizer failure mode.;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/T-C.1973.223730
Filename
1672323
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