<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@dlharmon" class="u-url mention">@<span>dlharmon</span></a></span> that's odd. my first circuit had metastability issues. it was a SPI clock recovery circuit on the smallest ice40, an oversampled counter that was reset by data edges of the input signal.</p><p>from this i concluded that metastability is not rare at all, but my case might have been exceptional: clocks of the sender and receiver were just a little bit different so this could drift into regimes that had the timing error more reliably</p>