Almost all high-speed SERDES designs require reference clocks that you must properly select to ensure that your links meet jitter requirements of high-speed serial-data communication standards.

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 ...

Microsemi has completed certification of its portfolio of Cesium clocks to be compliant with the new G.811.1 recommendation. This standard is known as ‘enhanced Primary Reference Clocks’ (ePRC) and is ...

One of the challenges facing those developing networks featuring wirelessly connected devices is maintaining a common clock time. A popular way of doing this is by using Network Time Protocol (NTP), a ...

What is the most critical performance characteristic for clock chips used with high-performance data converters? The clock signal’s phase noise (or jitter—the time-domain representation of phase noise ...

If you’re looking for a 1-second time reference, you’d probably just grab a GPS module off the shelf and use the 1PPS output. As demonstrated by [InazumaDenki], though, an old quartz clock module can ...

No audio available for this content. A new miniature atomic clock offers improvements to temperature sensitivity and long-term drift, which correlate to longer holdover durations. Features important ...

Space, military, and aerospace applications represent 41.0% of total demand, underscoring the market’s strategic orientation.