When I was working with BDD's, I noticed that if BDD's were converted to electronic circuits, the resulting circuit would be delay insensitive.
I recently explored that idea further, and found that a system that functions similarly already exists, though it uses different gates.

My idea was to use these two gates:
switch gate

Code:
 in || out
 c | v || x | y
 0 | 0 || 0 | 0
 0 | 1 || 0 | 0
 1 | 0 || 0 | 1
 1 | 1 || 1 | 0


reduction gate (to be used at the end of a circuit of switch-gates):

Code:
 in || out
 x | y || c | v
 0 | 0 || 0 | ?
 0 | 1 || 1 | 1
 1 | 0 || 1 | 0
 1 | 1 || 0 | ?

( ? means "don't care")


Constructing an optimal delay insensitive circuit is then as easy as constructing an optimal BDD for combinatorial functions.

Does this make any sense?
  
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