Comments on "A Note on Synchronizer or Interlock Maloperation"

1 October 1979

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Computers

Vol. C-28 (10) , 802-804
https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.1979.1675252

Abstract

E. G. Wormald's note¹proposes a way to prevent metastable action in synchronizers. Experimental results from testing his suggested circuits show that his solution does not work. A reference to a general proof that synchronizers must have a region of metastable action is given.

Keywords

INTERLOCK MALOPERATION
SUGGESTED CIRCUIT
GENERAL PROOF
E. G. WORMALD
METASTABLE ACTION
GLITCH

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Synchronisation and arbitration circuits in digital systems
Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1976