Asynchronous resets are bad design practice. Reset your flops synchronously or not at all.https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/932309842123022336 …
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Through my carrier I trusted
@cliff_cummings advice. He uses async. He is less categorical and more specific about async / sync reset design practice: http://www.sunburst-design.com/papers/CummingsSNUG2003Boston_Resets.pdf …
Are you seriously criticizing my "most trivial hill on which you are willing to die" tweet for not being as thorough as Cliff Cummings SNUG 2003 paper? (That spans 38 pages, most of them outlining gotchas with async resets.) 
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@cliff_cummings never said "bad practice", he said "has gotchs". "Further more, the authors prefer to use asynchronous resets following the guidelines detailed in this paper" -- p.2 paragraph 4. -- http://www.sunburst-design.com/papers/CummingsSNUG2002SJ_Resets.pdf … -
...followed by dozens of pages of guidelines, many of them gotchas that can leave you with a broken chip if ignored. I think
@brouhaha hit the nail on the head: "Most designers I've met don't exercise that discipline, or even think about it."https://twitter.com/brouhaha/status/933954373016739840 … - Show replies
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