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Can you explain the concept of metastability?

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Metastabilty is the state where output of flipflop goes to unpredictable state i.e it toggles between 0 and 1  and does not settle it happens as input changes during setup or hold time constraints of a clock .It can be eliminated by using synchronizers.
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