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Propagation Delays

It takes a non-zero amount of time for a transistor to change state, due to the physics of transistor devices. The propagation delay is a measure of the time taken to change state:  

Obviously, the speed is limited by the propagation delay.


  
Figure 2: Propagation delay.
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