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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Mon, 27 July 2020 20:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
From: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:24:24 -0700
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Leader/follower is equally - if not more - accurate for this type of system.

Joe

> On Jul 27, 2020, at 12:11 PM, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 3.3.2 Master–slave edge-triggered D flip-flop <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)#Master%E2%80%93slave_edge-triggered_D_flip-flop>
> 
> It is the primary technique for crossing synchronisation boundaries.
> 
> Interestingly when someone pointed out that slaves occasionally mutinied that aligned the metaphor with greater precision because occasionally the data changes exactly on a clock edge and the flip flop cannot decide which state to adopt in which case it sometimes oscillates for an indeterminate time with catastrophic consequences for the logic. Flip-flop metastability is mitigated by some techniques such as multiple ranking.
> 
> The historic term is master-slave, and whilst I condemn this behaviour in humans, it is an accurate metaphor for this electronic construct and the electronics is not offended by this required behaviour.
> 
> Stewart

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