Two Victorian clock towers rising from morning fog, connected by a stone bridge

Above the RTL · Notes

Two clocks. One bridge. The rest is engineering.

Technical reference notes accompanying abovethertl.com — the Substack publication on AI and chip design, written from inside the industry.

This site hosts the longer technical material that sits behind the narrative posts: CDC physics, synchronizer analysis, MTBF arithmetic, archetype catalogs, and the kind of detail that would bog down a post but matters to engineers actually closing sign-off.

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