A digital microelectronic circuit comprises a clocked data-processing unit (1)
and a converting unit (2) which reads in data present at the output of the
data-processing unit, performs a predetermined converting operation on the data
and passes on the converted data. The converting unit is realized in an asynchronous
logic circuit, such that the period of time for performing the converting operation
is shorter than the shortest time interval to the next change of the data present
at the output of the data-processing unit. In this way, fast, serial synchronous
processes can be parallelized from the point of view of the slow synchronous system
in synchronous systems which are slow relative thereto by using asynchronous logics,
without a further high-frequency clock system being required.