It's not an orthodoxy, you just can't do anything real in a reasonable timeframe for reasonable manpower that a sync CMOS design can't do better (in general). S

It's not an orthodoxy, you just can't do anything real in a reasonable timeframe for reasonable manpower that a sync CMOS design can't do better (in general). So there's nobody to discover all the secrets of async methodology. That is, outside of things like SERDES links, which are a tiny dark cabal that holds their secrets close :)