MONTEREY, Calif. — A shift to asynchronous design styles is “inevitable” for digital computing systems, according to Ivan Sutherland, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

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Available with either an asynchronous or synchronous interface, the industry's first 18-Mbit dual-port RAMs come in a 512-kword by 36-bit configuration. The availability of both interfaces allows ...

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