Timothy Miller <theosib <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Also, in dealing with domain crossing, I have seen other people use a
> chain of two registers in the receiving domain as a means to "deal
> with metastability", although I'm not entirely sure how that all
> works.

Metastability is an unstable state, and getting a register to be metastable is
akin to balancing a marble on the peak of a sombrero. ;)

So basically, if the first register manages to become metastable, the
probability that the second will become metastable is very low -- so the
probability of the pair becoming metastable is close to infinitesmal.

I've used this technique in asynchronous buses before, and it seems to work
really well... *shrug*

HTH,

Peter




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