Metastability is bound to occur in VLSI designs during clock domain crossing. For a robust and reliable design, metastability needs to be mitigated. To understand how to resolve it and how to build a ...

The fact that the designers of microcontrollers are so good at handling metastability explains why so few end users are aware of any potential problems As an aside, I was chatting with my ...

As system-on-chip (SoC) designs evolve, they aren’t just getting bigger — they’re becoming more intricate. One of the trickiest challenges in this evolution lies in handling resets. Today’s ...

As chip designs grow in complexity and face tighter power constraints, depending on a single clock domain is no longer practical. Instead, most modern chips incorporate as many as dozens or even ...

Here are some of the main reasons why metastability may occur in our designs and some of the ways in which we can mitigate its effects In my previous column, we introduced the concept of setup and ...