Clockless Computing

ender81b writes "Scientific American is carrying a nice article on asynchronous chips. In general, the article advocates that eventually all computer systems will have to move to an asynchronous design. The article focuses on Sun's efforts but gives a nice overview of the general concept of asynchronous chip design." We had another story about this last year.

HOW????

[Anonymous Coward]

But how will we be able to tell time with our computers! Dear god no!

1 Million reward

[nick-less]

for the first guy who overclock's it ;-)

Re:1 Million reward

[sketchkid]

larry ellison? is that you? :)

Yeah and...

[xbrownx]

...maybe some day we'll actually get 64 bit processors for home use

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Thisisahorribleidea...

[zulux]

withoutaclocksignal,howcanyoutellwhenoneinstructio nstopsandanotherbegins?

(kidding)

Re:Return of the 68000?

[isorox]

Wasn't the 68000 asynchronous?

No, it was so slow it just seemed that way.

Re:The Amiga Zorro Bus was Asyncronous

[Joel Ironstone]

I thought the clock on the zorro was just masked.

Re:1 Million reward

[Midnight Thunder]

Intel marketing wouldn't like clockless chips as it would cause them massive headaches in the Mhz FUD. For once real world performance comparisons would have to matter.

Re:Intel will be pissed

[isorox]

1. ClocklessCPU
2. ClocklessCPU 2
3. Super ClocklessCPU 2
4. Super ClocklessCPU Turbo
5. Super ClocklessCPU Turbo 2
6. Super ClocklessCPU Turbo !!!
7. Super Duper ClocklessCPU Turbo MAX
8. Super Duper ClocklessCPU Turbo MAX 2
9. etc. etc.

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Armada

[Shadow Wrought]

Hopefully Sun's "ships" and "flotillas" won't go the way of the Spanish Armada;-) Will this be the new way to measure? "Sure this one has 10k ships, but they're only frigates. Even though this one only has 5k ships, they're all ships of the line."

Re:clockless computing?

[Citizen of Earth]

they can't take away the clock. how will i know what time it is?

Why is it that a $5 watch can keep perfect time but a $10,000 computer cannot?

Re:Heard about this stuff in class

[cpeterso]

should I be looking into doing research with asynchronous logic design or software-defined radio (see recent H2K2 slashdot article)? Decisions, decisions...

You should consider researching software-defined asynchronous radio logic.