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To: Petz who wrote (98735)	3/16/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1571033

John, I think the Willy's ALU is pseudo-asynchronous. What I mean is this: all operations inside the ALU execute with a granularity of 1/2 a CPU clock cycle. In a sense, all ALU's are asynchronous. They are strictly asynchronous combinational logic. The Willy ALU latches the output data at mid-cycle, whereas most other designs latch the data at the end of the cycle. The only real difference between Willy and other ALU's is that Willy is faster and can forward data and perform a second ALU operation on the next clock phase. Scumbria