Embedded Queries - 6 (What is Race Condition in embedded Hardware?)

Race condition may occur in digital logic circuits where the behavior of a circuit depends on some of the conditions which cannot be avoided. The affect generally is for a short duration which makes it hard to control. Glitches in system could be one of such scenarios. A glitch in a clock signal could be 

catastrophic in a synchronized system and especially memory related operations become crucial. In the high speed systems, this becomes more crucial. 

A generic scenario of race condition is when a signal and it's complement are input to another logic gate. when a race condition occurs, the systems could to a unknown/meta stable state.