Re: GA144 Instruction Timing

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: GA144 Instruction Timing
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Date	2012-08-23 00:03 -0700
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Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> writes:
> I'm not a hardware engineer by any stretch of the imagination, but
> this being a fully unclocked chip, I would expect that it would excel
> at problems which don't require a clock inside of the chip.

As I understand it, the GA144 nodes do have clocks.  The chip is
asynchronous in the sense that there is no single clock propagated
through the whole array.  The nodes are instead clocked independently
(ring oscillator in each node), with synchronization through a
mutex-like protocol in the i/o ports connecting nodes.  There is such a
thing as actual asynchronous logic that uses no clocking at all, but it
increases the amount of circuitry a lot and the GA144 doesn't use it.

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GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-11 18:54 -0400
  Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-11 17:40 -0700
    Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-12 19:00 -0400
      Re: GA144 Instruction Timing johnmdrake@gmail.com - 2012-08-14 10:17 -0700
        Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 18:57 -0400
  Re: GA144 Instruction Timing RR <freedomspyder@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:11 -0700
    Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 10:33 -0400
      Re: GA144 Instruction Timing RR <freedomspyder@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 12:46 -0700
        Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-22 13:10 -0700
          Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 18:10 -0400
          Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-23 00:03 -0700
            Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 19:57 -0400
              Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-24 16:29 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 18:33 -0400
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-28 02:45 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 21:41 -0400
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-28 22:07 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-28 18:25 -0400
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-29 01:41 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-29 16:43 -0400
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-30 02:13 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 15:07 -0400
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-30 23:11 +0200
                Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 15:15 -0400
        Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 18:05 -0400
          Re: GA144 Instruction Timing RR <freedomspyder@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 15:46 -0700
  Re: GA144 Instruction Timing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-09-02 17:21 -0400

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