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i am tring to implement an external bus interface which is connected to ARM chip.
oe, we, ce, addr, data signals were provided by MCU. i have to drive my registers with 25Mhz internal clock. so, there are two clock domains. metastable problems must be solved. but i want to speed up the interface's r/w speed, which makes the external bus work about 50ns. ce is active about 50ns. we/oe remains 30ns active. ce comes 20ns ahead of we/oe. we/oe was selected as clock. this design would need a two clock synchrounous mechenism for those signals. it would be a long time for me, because some register have to be read immediately after write. is there any one-clock synchronizer exist?Link Copied
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What's a "one-clock synchronizer"?
CE length of only 50 ns either requires oversampling the bus at a high rate, I guess at least 100 MHz, or operating the interface synchronous to the ARM clock. Some ARM variants are exposing a synchronous interface with a clock, otherwise the clock would need to be synthesized from the ARM input clock, and most likely phase synchronized to the bus signals. Using OE and WE as clocks doesn't seem a straightforward solution to handle the bus. We usually try to live with a slower bus, inserting some wait states.- Mark as New
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one-clock synchronizer is a synchronizer need only one clock to synchronize clock domain.
it is compared to two filp flop synchronizer, which need two clock to synchronize.- Mark as New
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If the clock is slow enough, you can utilize both edges for the synchronizer, instead of introducing a faster oversampling clock. It's against a clear, straightforward design, but may be useful anyway.

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