EDN

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

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

Signal integrity is one of the many challenges faced by chip designers. Deep submicron technologies are unfriendly hosts for the nice, clean signals desired. The culprits that compromise signal ...
Electronic Design

Measuring digital clock stability and jitter with an oscilloscope

Clocks are the heartbeats of embedded systems, providing timing references and synchronization between components, subsystems, and entire systems. Incorrect clock signal amplitudes and timing can ...
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

Mitigate clock intermodulation effects in characterization setups

Mixed-signal printed circuit boards (PCBs) present unique challenges in high-performance applications, such as vibration analysis and other multi-channel data acquisition systems. Nonlinear ...