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16 years ago

Sync reset with push-button not reliable

I'm using Quartus II 9.1 Web Edition with a DE1 (Cyclone II Starter Kit) board and I have some problems with resetting my tiny design that I can't figure out. When I have all my flops reset synchrono...
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16 years ago

I think, it's misleading to use the term "metastability" for trivial cases of timing violation caused by unrelated input signals. But synchronizing the input signal (in this case rst_n) to the clock is the appropriate means anyway.