Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Apr 2006 18:38 UTC
As expected processor licensor ARM Holdings and Handshake Solutions NV, a Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary, have developed an asynchronous processor based on the ARM9 core. The ARM996HS is thought to be the first commercial clockless processor and is being described as particular suited to use as an automotive microcontroller. Because clockless processors consume zero dynamic power when there is no activity, they can significantly extend battery life compared with clocked equivalents.
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2005-07-08
Okay in the context of your 1st post if you have a couple of $M you can indeed buy some Cray super computers (Octiga Bay originally) that basically combine some Opterons with you guessed it some Xilinx FPGAs, and also note that both are fully syncronous clocked systems. FPGAs will never be async and wouldn't work well with the clockles ARM in the main article. Infact the ARM hasn't made much of a dent in FPGAs, Altera used to and barely still includes an older ARM core in one of their FPGA families, Xilinx uses the PPC core but only at about 300MHz with no FPU.