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The major thing with a clock-based design is that you have to dedicate a huge amount of silicon and power just towards getting a clock signal all over the whole
by mnw21cam 8y ago
The major thing with a clock-based design is that you have to dedicate a huge amount of silicon and power just towards getting a clock signal all over the whole chip.
A group at Cambridge University also designed and fabricated an asynchronous CPU based on an early ARM a long time ago now. Like the ones mentioned in this article, it behaved very well. It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it.
- moonbug 8y agoNot thinking of AMULET from Steve Furber @ University of Manchester?
- mnw21cam 8y agoHmm. It does appear that perhaps when I was wondering around the Cambridge labs they may have claimed a little more than they should have. Maybe someone working there was collaborating with the Manchester group.
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoReminds me of the way loud noises can cause permanent data-loss on hard-drives [0]. This is a real problem with loud fire-suppression gas-release systems [1]. [0] https://www.ontrack.com/blog/2017/01/10/loud-noise-data-loss/ https://www.ontrack.com/blog/2017/01/10/loud-noise-data-loss... [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-loud-noise-brought-a-data-center-to-its-knees/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-loud-noise-brought-a-dat...
- ur-whale 8y ago> It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it. Ah! Made my day :D