Electronic Design

Clock IC Harnesses GPS Signal For Synchronization

The AD9548 clock generator/synthesizer is the first clock IC that lets designers use the standard, free 1-pulse/s signal of GPS satellites to generate and synchronize clock signals for communications ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDN

Differential clock buffers improve signal margins in terabit communications

Diodes Incorporated has announced the PI6C59xxxxx series of differential clock buffers for Ethernet speeds up to 400 Gbits/s for use in high-performance applications such as data centers and 5G base ...
Optics

NIST team develops chip-scale optical clock

Smaller than conventional devices, made of three small chips plus electronics and optics, new clock is based on semiconductor laser and frequency combs. Coffee time: The heart of NIST’s ...