What If The Most Critical Part Of Your Electronic System Were The Clock?

System designers are thinking of precision timing as a layer, one that supports the entire stack, from hardware to software and applications.
Electronic Design

Vernier Optical Combs Plus Heterodyned Electronics Yield Atomic Clock

There are significantly different architectures for what are known as “atomic” clocks. Optically driven atomic clocks offer a new set of performance attributes. The optical atomic clocks use paired ...
Electronic Design

Take Time For A Clock-Chip Update

The beating heart of mixed-signal processing is delimited by the clock devices that slice the analog world into digital events. Like our own hearts, we don’t pay much attention to them unless ...
EDN

Development of Technology that Achieves World’s Most Accurate On-Chip Measurement of Clock Signal Quality

NEC Corporation (NEC) and NEC Electronics Corporation (NEC Electronics) today announced the development and verification of technology that achieves the world's most accurate on-chip measurement of ...
Nature

Delay-Locked Loop Design and Applications

Delay-locked loops (DLLs) are critical components in modern electronic systems, providing robust synchronisation of clock signals in a variety of applications ranging from high-speed communication to ...
EDN

CMOS Clock Module

Occasionally you might need a simple clock module for various projects. A small CMOS clock module, such as the one presented here, is not capable of offering as much precision as a clock module built ...