I thought most of the benefit can also come from skew tolerant circuit design: http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/23-2.pdf http://www.cerc.utexas.ed

I thought most of the benefit can also come from skew tolerant circuit design: http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/23-2.pdf http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/23-2.pdf For example, in a pipeline "allowing a slow stage to “borrow” from the time normally allocated to a faster stage"