and design principles for multi-service real-time systems. Different design approaches for the RTES project are reviewed in this module including the "shot gun" start, where clock ticks are detected ...

electricity and communications systems to a standstill. NPL's atomic clock, alongside clocks from around 80 labs worldwide, helps set Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), the official global time ...

resulting in thousands of times more accurate time and position indications. "Today's atomic clocks enable GPS systems with a positional accuracy of a few meters. With an optical atomic clock, you ...