With asynchronous logic you have to worry about path lengths down to the picometer so you don't need the clock to act like a traffic warden.
No, the most successful class of Asynchronous circuits is wire length invariant. It's called QDI (Quasi-Delay Insensitive). The challenge is asynchronous logic is implementing efficient logic that obeys the hankshaking between concurrent processing elements.
Most of the popular press articles on async are bogus. If you really care, you should read some technical papers
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No, the most successful class of Asynchronous circuits is wire length invariant. It's called QDI (Quasi-Delay Insensitive). The challenge is asynchronous logic is implementing efficient logic that obeys the hankshaking between concurrent processing elements.
Most of the popular press articles on async are bogus. If you really care, you should read some technical papers