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Most digital circuits designed and fabricated today are “synchronous”. In essence, they are based on two fundamental assumptions that greatly simplify their design: (1) all signals are binary, and (2) all components share a common and discrete notion of time, as defined by a clock signal distributed throughout the circuit.
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Sparsø, J., Furber, S. (2001). Introduction. In: Sparsø, J., Furber, S. (eds) Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3385-3_1
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