Hackaday

Clock Runs Computer In Slow-Motion

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...
EDN

Predictability Counts When Designing Clock Signals

Ultra-deep submicron integrated circuit (IC) clock signals and clocking schemes are designed carefully to achieve optimum performance. A poorly designed clock can cost a company millions of dollars in ...
Electronic Specifier

The importance of anti-tamper solutions in an era of evolving security threats

The complexity and frequency of security threats across the globe is leading to a greater focus on what is needed to keep devices secure.
Electronic Design

It Takes A Super Sleuth To Really Debug Clock-Timing Problems

Today's digital-based systems anchor their reliability and performance on the integrity of their clocking systems. Due to the wide-reaching effect these signals have on system performance, it's ...
New Scientist

AI has learned to read the time on an analogue clock

Reading the time on an analogue clock is surprisingly difficult for computers, but artificial intelligence can now do so accurately using a method that had previously proved tricky to deploy. Computer ...
Hackaday

Homebrew Relay Computer Features Motorized Clock

Before today, we probably would have said that scratch-built relay computers were the sole domain of only the most wizardly of graybeards. But this impressive build sent in by [Will Dana] shows that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DDR5 UDIMM Evolution To Clock Buffered DIMMs (CUDIMM)

DDR5 is the latest generation of PCDDR memory that is used in a wide range of application like data centers, Laptops and personal computers, autonomous driving systems, servers, cloud computing, and ...
EurekAlert!

Atomic clock signals may be best shared by fiber-optics

Time and frequency information can be transferred between laboratories or to other users in several ways, often using the Global Positioning System (GPS). But today's best atomic clocks are so ...
Electronic Design

PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers demonstrate precise optical clock signal transmission via multicore fiber

Researchers have shown how ultrastable optical signals from optical clocks can be transmitted across tens of kilometers of deployed multicore fiber carrying telecommunications data. Nazanin Hoghooghi, ...
CNN

Physics breakthrough brings nuclear clock closer to reality

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Picture a clock ...