Editing Runt pulse (section)

{{Short description|A narrow pulse that does not reach a valid high or low level (Digital electronics).}}
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In [[digital circuit]]s, a '''runt pulse''' is a narrow [[Pulse (signal processing)|pulse]] that, 
due to non-zero [[rise time|rise]] and [[fall time|fall]] times of the signal, does not reach a valid 
high or low level.  A runt pulse may occur when switching between 
[[wikt:asynchronous|asynchronous]] [[Clock signal|clocks]]; or as the result of a [[race condition]] in which a signal takes two separate paths through a circuit, which may have different delays, and is then recombined to form a [[glitch]]; or when the output of a [[Flip-flop (electronics)|flip-flop]] becomes [[Metastability in electronics|metastable]].