The fact that the designers of microcontrollers are so good at handling metastability explains why so few end users are aware of any potential problems As an aside, I was chatting with my ...

IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron x86, 64-bit processor. In just over a year, the three major enterprise hardware vendors have built offerings around it ...

Eric Foote is considering 64-bit Windows servers for his growing base of 4,500 users. But he’s in no big rush to make the shift from 32-bit computing. His first target application is Presentation ...

Here are some of the main reasons why metastability may occur in our designs and some of the ways in which we can mitigate its effects In my previous column, we introduced the concept of setup and ...