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Ooh, awesome. Clockless computing seems like a really nifty idea, but its difficult. I imagine it might go mainstream when Moore's law finally runs out.


"difficult" does not even begin to encompass the half of it. It is really cool in theory, but in reality a ridiculously difficult challenge that existing tools are in no way whatsoever up for.


Take a look at the Balsa design system: http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/tools/balsa/

My colleague uses it for research purposes and he said that it is pretty mature.


I suspect if the only issue was translating architecture to logic, we'd be doing it already


There are other asynchronous CPUs, including implementations of popular architectures like MIPS and ARM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchrono...




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