Avoiding Metastability in Hardware Software Interface (HSI) using CDC Techniques
The Agnisys IDesignSpecTM (IDS) Suite supports clock domain crossings (CDCs) from both the software (SW) and hardware (HW) sides. Techniques used to avoid metastability as signals cross from one clock domain to another include:
- Two-Flip-Flop Synchronizer
- Mux Synchronizer
- Handshake Synchronization
– Write
– Read
– Pulse
- Custom Synchronizer
In a CDC design, one clock is either asynchronous to, or has a variable phase relation with respect to, another clock. Speed and power requirements lead to designs with multiple asynchronous clock domains employed at different I/O interfaces and data being transferred from one clock domain to another.
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