EDN

LTC Design Note: Robust 10MHz reference clock input protection circuit and distributor for ...

RF instruments and wireless transceivers often feature an input for an external reference clock, such as the ubiquitous 10MHz reference input port found on RF instruments. Many of these same systems ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Design Challenges Of Clock Integrity And Clock Jitter

Races, missed next-state values due to long paths, and metastability can result from corrupted clock signals. This post describes the challenges of clock network and clock jitter analysis in more ...
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 ...
EDN

Mixed-Signal PCB Design: Schematic-Level Design Considerations

If you can't pick up the schematic and know (at a moderately high level) what the design is supposed to do and how it is supposed to do it, then you have not really done your job as the designer. The ...
Electronic Design

Simplify System Clocking with Programmable Multi-Output Clock Generators

Today’s complex system boards often contain application-specific processors, high-speed general-purpose processors, and multiple system-on-a-chip designs. Each of these high-performance circuits may ...