Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

If only we’d been taught the tricks associated with the asynchronous domain, we could have run wild and free; instead, we were condemned to serve the rules of the synchronous realm. In my previous ...

Lack of coordination between asynchronous resets and synchronous logic clocks leads to intermittent failures on power up. In this series of articles, we discuss the requirements and challenges of ...