Here are some of the main reasons why metastability may occur in our designs and some of the ways in which we can mitigate its effects In my previous column, we introduced the concept of setup and ...

In Part 1 of this mega-mini-series, I introduced Joe Farr and we revisited the concept of the Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg (HRRG) 4-bit computer, which has been on the drawing board for longer than I ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...