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Subject: Re: More on Metastibility
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 11:25:00 EDT
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/* Written 12:47 pm  Oct  9, 1985 by paul@dual.UUCP in net.arch */

The academics, as usual, are silent about the problem as it is just
something messy to do with producing working equipment, and therefore
totally uninteresting.

/* End of text from net.arch */

"Introduction to VLSI Systems" by Mead and Conway, a very famous and
well-read book among academics, discusses metastability problems, and
makes references to a report by TJ Chaney and CE Molnar (of Washington U) in
the April 1973 issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers that discusses these
issues.  In other words, these problems have been known by academics for
some time.  There is actually a lot of theory that can be applied to these
problems.