Electronic Design

Components: Performance Packed Into Tiny-Footprint Real-Time Clocks

The DS1390/91/92/93 three- and four-wire serial-peripheral-interface bus real-time clocks feature automatic power switching, a trickle-charge output, an alarm, a microprocessor reset, a square-wave ...
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

Real-Time Clock Programming Requires Caveats

When developing code to operate a real-time clock (RTC), it is often beneficial to understand how the clock core operating logic has been defined. We all have a fundamental comprehension of how a ...
EDN

Accurate Real-Time Clocks using MEMS Technology

Real-time clocks (RTCs) continue to evolve, keeping pace with changes in their use and application by becoming smaller and more accurate. A major driver behind this evolution and adaptation is a new ...
EDN

Taming inaccurate real-time clocks

In modern multimedia systems, maintaining an RTC (real-time clock) is an important task. An RTC supports displaying the play time on a media player and the call details in a video phone. One way to ...