The timing of the evolved circuit's response to a change in input frequency. The response to a single high-going pulse. This is astonishing. Our observations at the output show that Part C is also in a static state during the pulse. This is hard to believe, so we have reinforced this finding through many separate types of observation, and all agree that the circuit is inactive during the pulse.
Power consumption returns to quiescent levels during the pulse.
Glitches sufficiently strong to circulate for tens of microseconds could be expected to trigger the glitch-catcher, but it detected no activity in any of the recurrent loops during an input pulse. The circuit is not relying on influences from outside of the chip. Once the configuration had been downloaded to the device, it could be detached from all external circuitry. The whole isolated chip and battery assembly could then be placed in a grounded metal box, and the circuit still displayed the correct behaviour. Behaviour of the first frequency-discriminating ancestor.