Purdue University

Transistors repurposed as microchip ‘clock’ address supply chain weakness

Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the operation of those ...
EDN

SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #61: Clock jitter demystified-random jitter and phase noise, Part 2

Editor's note: Signal Chain Basics is an ongoing and popular series; click here for a complete, linked list of all installments.) In Signal Chain Basics Part 56 we discussed the fundamental ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Sprockets And Chains Drive This Unique Mechanical Digital Clock

When it comes to mechanical timepieces, we’re used to seeing mechanisms stuffed with tiny gears and wheel, often of marvelous complexity and precision. What we’re perhaps less used to seeing is a ...
EDN

Signal Chain Basics #89: Creating Clock Trees From Multiple Devices, Part 2

This two-part Signal Chain Basics post is brought to you by Dean Banerjee, an applications engineer for TI's Signal and Data Path Solutions Business Unit. Part one can be found here. A good way to ...
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 ...