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The customary model of a logic gate is its Boolean function. It should be clear that this model does not take into account all of the properties of a physical gate. For example, physical gates have delays associated with their operation. Thus, if an input of a gate changes at some time, its output will respond to this change only at some later time, whereas the Boolean function model treats the response as instantaneous. In this chapter we consider the basic properties of delays, and introduce a number of mathematical models of delays. First, however, we discuss the possible behaviors of the environment of a circuit.
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Brzozowski, J.A., Seger, CJ.H. (1995). Delay Models. In: Asynchronous Circuits. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4210-9_3
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