Electronic Design

Multiservice Router Clock Circuit Design Challenges

What’s a multiservice router/ switch? Multiservice routers and switches are network devices that support multiple switching and routing protocols, typically adding Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) ...
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 ...
EDN

10 design issues to avoid during clock domain crossing

The modern ASIC consists of millions of gates and billions of transistors that often can be operating in several domains having different voltages and clock frequencies. To avoid data loss, designers ...
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

Taking the ‘black magic’ out of RF design

Ultra high-speed data conversion offers many challenges to the system designer. Working with GHz analog signals is often referred to as a 'black art', so even experienced circuit designers are often ...