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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Varšavskij, Viktor Ilʹič

Titel

Self-Timed Control of Concurrent Processes : The Design of Aperiodic Logical Circuits in Computers and Discrete Systems [Elektronische Ressource]

Ist Teil von

• Mathematics and Its Applications (Soviet Series) : 52

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

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