It is an object of the present invention to propose a sheet computer that
eliminates the drawback in operational speed caused by clock delays of a
system clock and that is capable of high speed operation. In order to
achieve this object, in the sheet computer of the present invention, a
display circuit and peripheral circuits connected to the display circuit
are fabricated on the same substratum and the peripheral circuits
constitute an asynchronous system without global clocking. In the
asynchronous system, processes constituting minimum function circuits
perform mutual handshaking by channels and drive events actively or
passively. The asynchronous system does not use global clocking and it is
therefore possible to implement lower power consumption and a higher
operational speed.