You know the basics about how the chip is clocked. Every microcontroller chip uses a clock, which keeps track of time for the chip, in general one assembly code instruction is run every clock cycle.

Clock redundancy is required for many of today’s data-communication, networking, and computer systems. Any interruption due to component or board-level failure, or even simply regular system ...

Circuits such as PLL (phase-locked loop) synthesizers, high-dynamic-range ADCs (analog-to-digital converters), and timing-sensitive digital networks require a stable and spurious-free clock. Testing ...

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 ...

We have featured quite a few cool clocks here at Geeky Gadgets, and the latest one is the work of Andrew O’Malley, the DOTKLOK, which is an open-source Arduino digital clock. The DOTKLOK comes with a ...

Fig 1. In a typical PWM controller in which the active devices are driven by a simple square wave, a Fourier representation of the clock’s frequency spectrum consists of the fundamental switching ...