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Chaney", title = "Circuit design for", journal = ieeessc, year = 1982, volume = "SC-17", month = "August", note = ""} @ARTICLE{Chaney83, author = "T.J. Chaney", title = "Measured Flip-Flop Responses to Marginal Triggering", journal = ieeetc, year = 1983, volume = "C-32", number = 12, pages = "1207--1209", month = "December", note = ""} @ARTICLE{Chaney83b, author = "T.J. Chaney", title = "Flip-flop flaw", journal = "EDN", year = 1983, volume = 28, number = 4, pages = "23", note = "letter"} @ARTICLE{Chaney85, author = "T.J. Chaney", title = "A Comprehensive Bibliography on Synchronizers and Arbiters", journal = "Institute of Biomedical Computing, Washington Uni., St Louis", year = 1985, month = "October", note = ""} @PHDTHESIS{Chapiro84, author = "D.M. Chapiro", title = "Globally asynchronous locally synchronous systems", school = "Stanford University", year = 1984, month = "October", note = "STAN-CS-84-1026"} @ARTICLE{Chapiro87, author = "D.M. 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