Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386
I've been reverse-engineering the Intel 386 processor (from 1985), and I've come across some interesting
circuits for the chip's input/output (I/O) pins.
Since these pins communicate with the outside world, they face special dangers:
static electricity and latchup can destroy the chip, while metastability can cause serious malfunctions.
These I/O circuits are completely different from the logic circuits in the 386, and I've come
across a previously-undescribed flip-flop circuit, so I'm
venturing...
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