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To: Tony Viola who wrote (152684)	12/17/2001 2:07:09 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I agree completely about determinism, which is absolutely necessary for trace programs and other diagnostics to be of value. Complex logic is a nightmare to troubleshoot without them. Someday, though, that extra power for the clock distribution network might get tempting for some company to try to eliminate. At some point in the future chips will fully test themselves with Built In Self Test (BIST) logic. We're getting closer but not there yet. In that article it was hard to understand exactly what was meant by asynchronous. I got the feeling the author was mixing two different concepts. One being unclocked logic and the other being similar to SMT where unsynchronized threads are more fully taking advantage of the synchronous logic. I don't think the author knew he was mixing things. EP