[time-nuts] Falling Edge Error

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060814.191312.-782815002.cfmd at bredband.net>, Magnus Danielson wri
tes:

>Randy,
>
>> Maybe it would be better to call it the "leading" edge?

We had a long discussion about this when we wrote RFC2783.

We settled on calling the two edges "assert" and "clear" because
any other words we could find were overloaded with implicit information
about voltage levels.


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