Metastability and Fatal System Errors

Metastability and Fatal System Errors
by Daniel Nenni on 06-09-2013 at 3:00 pm

Metastability is an inescapable phenomenon in digital electronic systems. This phenomenon has been known to cause fatal system errors for half a century. Over the years, designers have used convenient rules of thumb for designing synchronizers to mitigate it. However, as digital circuits have become more complex, smaller … Read More