Gizmodo

The Timing Chain Clock Makes Me Want to Live in a Factory

For those obsessed with all things industrial, the Timing Chain clock is a piece made for you. Just look at it, the thing looks like it was plucked from an Upton Sinclair-era factory machine and ...
EDN

Logical chain-based clock implementation

Time to market without any compromise on the performance is the key to success for present-day semiconductor companies. To reduce cost, different technologies are integrated into the same system on ...
Electronic Design

Clock Generators Bring Stability to Timing-Circuit Designs

Clock speed is equivalent to data movement in applications that receive and process hundreds of megabytes of data each second. Applications involved in moving enormous volumes of data include cellular ...
Electronic Design

Bulletproof Your System Timing With Programmable Clocks

Ever wondered how much timing margin your system really has? You’ve probably asked some questions along these lines, such as: Does my crystal really need 20 parts-per-million (ppm) accuracy? What if ...
EDN

Advantages of timing networks with cesium atomic clocks

In a telecommunications network, every network element with synchronous intermachine links requires proper synchronization to minimize transport errors. A good example of synchronization is a network ...
Science Daily

Transistors repurposed as microchip 'clock' address supply chain weakness

A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...
Purdue University

Transistors repurposed as microchip ‘clock’ address supply chain weakness

A method of repurposing existing techniques to produce a microprocessor timing device in a standard chip fab plant could address supply chain and security weak points. (Photo courtesy of Second Bay ...