The Transistor Effect
Who knew that transistors would have such a transformative power over our daily lives? We carry billions of them around in our pocket, on our wrist, in our computers. They are ubiquitous but also invisible.
Who knew that transistors would have such a transformative power over our daily lives? We carry billions of them around in our pocket, on our wrist, in our computers. They are ubiquitous but also invisible.
I have rescued a few designs during my 25+ years at the helm of Aspen Logic's FPGA/ASIC contracting business. Reasons abound for the causes of the failures but there are three areas that need consistent focus:
The typical article on metastability in the flip flop synchronizer (used for clock domain crossing) delivers volumes about the MTBF ("Mean Time Between Failure") equation but falls short when explaining practical ways to manage the failure rate.