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 ...
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

Resolve picoseconds using FPGA techniques

A low area and high stability Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) circuit implemented with a shifted-clock sampling technique is proposed. It is tested on a Xilinx Virtex-5 ML507 device. The results ...
Electronic Design

Simplify System Clocking with Programmable Multi-Output Clock Generators

Today’s complex system boards often contain application-specific processors, high-speed general-purpose processors, and multiple system-on-a-chip designs. Each of these high-performance circuits may ...