li...@rtty.us said: > If the data is changing as the clock fires, the flip flop oscillates rather > than goes to a single state.
It may not oscillate. Some sit at halfway and then wander off, slowly at first but with an exponential speedup. The usual way to describe metastability is how much longer you have to wait until the data is stable. The clock-to out gets stretched. Here is an example from the net: http://www2.tek.com/cmswpt/psdetails.lotr?ct=PS&cs=psu&ci=13298 The first picture, about a page down, shows metastability. You can see the number of events decaying as you get farther from the normal case. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.