Asynchronous Logic: Ready For It?

prostoalex writes "For a while academia and R&D labs explored the possibilities of asynchronous logic. Now Bernard Cole from Embedded.com tells us that asynchronous logic might receive more acceptance than expected in modern designs. The main advantages, as article states, are 'reduced power consumption, reduced current peaks, and reduced electromagnetic emission', to quote a prominent researcher from Philips Semiconductors. Earlier Bernard Cole wrote a column on self-timed asynchronous logic."

Comments

Asink what?

[Anonymous Coward]

my logic isn't good enough to understand

Jesus.

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to say that you are a crappy troll but, you keep getting the moderators to fall for it so I guess that proves me wrong.

Still I just shake my head. Pathetic.

Re:Jesus.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thou shalt not criticize thy moderator, lest he modth thee down as offtopic.

asynchronous logic

[Anonymous Coward]

1)My prostate is infected.

2)Money is the root of all evil.

Thus, my prostate is made of gold.

va linux annual report

[larry bagina]

Hey, I know this is offtopic, but it is important, and, for obvious reasons, the story submission got rejected.

VA Linux released their annual report Friday.

The future looks bleak:

IF WE FAIL TO ADEQUATELY MONITOR AND MINIMIZE OUR USE OF EXISTING CASH, WE MAY NEED ADDITIONAL CAPITAL TO FUND CONTINUED OPERATIONS BEYOND FISCAL YEAR 2003.
Since becoming a public company, we have experienced negative cash flow from operations and expect to experience negative cash flow from operations for at least the foreseeable future. Unless we monitor and minimize the level of use of our existing cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and credit facilities, we may require additional capital to fund continued operations beyond our fiscal year 2003. We may require additional funding within this time frame, and this additional funding, if needed, may not be available on terms acceptable to us, or at all. A continued slowdown in technology spending as compared to the general economy, as well as other factors that may arise, could affect our future capital requirements and the adequacy of our available funds. As a result, we may be required to raise additional funds through private or public financing facilities, strategic relationships or other arrangements. Any additional equity financing would likely be dilutive to our stockholders. Debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants on our operations and financial condition. Our inability to raise capital when needed could seriously harm our business.

WE HAVE A HISTORY OF LOSSES AND EXPECT TO CONTINUE TO INCUR NET LOSSES FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. We incurred a loss of $18.8 million for our fiscal fourth quarter ended July 27, 2002, primarily due to the continued slowdown in technology spending as compared to the general economy, restructuring charges, long-lived asset impairments and our ramp up of our software business, and we had an accumulated deficit of $725.9 million as of July 27, 2002. We expect to continue to incur significant product development, sales and marketing and administrative expenses. We expect to continue to incur net losses for at least the foreseeable future. If we do achieve profitability, we may not be able to sustain it. Failure to become and remain profitable may materially and adversely affect the market price of our common stock and our ability to raise capital and continue operations.

Re:va linux annual report

[Anonymous Coward]

*Gasp* Slashdot might die *before* BSD? :-)

Re:Some further information

[PhysicsScholar]

I seem to have forgotten the quotes.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

what you say is all true, but how does it make it redundant? the post is informative and it is a good post, why do you care if he get karma for it? copy-n-pasting is usually rewarded here.

don't be bitter because he's working the system because that's how the system is designed.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

not to mention that by modding it down, you are depriving the readers of reading a good post in your zeal to stop his karma whoring.

so who really loses in this fight? the readers.
the winners? the jealous zealots.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

this aint english lit class here, it's fuckin slashdot. you are abusing the moderation system if you mod down posts just because of who the author is, and not looking at the actual content of the post.

if he doesn't credit it, so fucking what? the moderation guidelines don't say you must provide sources or credit your material. you are using criteria to mod that isn't there.

btw, i like how these discussions about the stupid moderation and karma system get modded down so quickly. seems like somone is rather insequre about people talking about it.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

interesting, this is this post modded down to -1, yet its parent is untouched at -1? if one is offtopic, shouldn't the other one be? why is this not so?

this is simply moderation abuse. whoever modded these posts to -1 is clearly using their mod points to punish for expressing the "wrong" opinion. this person should be removed from ever being able to moderate again.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

i love this editor modbombing. more proof that this secret unaccountable system sucks, and what hypocritical censors they are.

you people are no better than the old communist censors who silently and secretly wipe off opinions who don't toe the party line.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

so on simply the basis of all this circumstantial evidence and past history, you simply throw out whatever he says? how about you read his posts first, then decide?

don't judge a book by its cover, as my momma told me. but slashbots here seem to have a deep insecurity about the evil trolls.

just because he makes the system and the moderators look completely stupid, don't take it out on him.

Re:Some further information

[Milican]

Its not about English class, we don't need a MLA style credit here. A simple URL with a couple of quotes will do. Its not cool to copy-n-paste and not give credit and its straight up misrepresentation to do so. Misrepresentation should not be encouraged or tolerated on this forum or any other.

Also, I agree how its rather funny we got modded down. Do your worst moderators, my Karma is still excellent and these small posts won't hurt it!!

JOhn

Re:What everybody's wondering now is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Get off the crack, moderators. It's a valid point.

Re:Some further information

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem to have "forgotten the quotes" there, too.