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To: Charles R who wrote (94360)2/20/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1577814
 
Chuck,

IBM invested a huge amount of resources in their Bellatrix project, which was an asynchronous Power PC design. In the end, they gave up because of verification and test issues.

Scumbria




To: Charles R who wrote (94360)2/20/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 1577814
 
Re: "<It is not clear to me how you do affordable production test on a design without synchronous scannable storage elements. Could you elaborate?>"

You don't. The key word here is affordable.

EP