Reply to post: Re: Beat the clock

This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

Charles Manning

Re: Beat the clock

It's the capacitance, not the length.

Those wires act as huge capacitors which need to charge and discharge on each cycle to allow the signal to stabilise.

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