Streamline Spacecraft Timing Architecture with Microchip’s Radiation-Tolerant, Low-Power, Low-Jitter Six-Output Clock Generator

Spacecraft timing systems must provide highly stable, precise signals for navigation, communications and scientific instruments, even when GNSS signals are weak or unavailable. Designers often rely on ...
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Clock build-off: My design and process

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson shares her design and process from a clock build-off project. He was fooling around on the edge - then his hand suddenly slipped Coffee found to have startling ...
Electronic Design

Clock Domain Crossing and Synchronizers (Part 2): Best Practices

As chip designs grow in complexity and face tighter power constraints, depending on a single clock domain is no longer practical. Instead, most modern chips incorporate as many as dozens or even ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Python Cave tours? The ways disease jumps from animals to humans are evolving

In July 2008, a 41-year-old Dutch woman developed a rapidly progressing illness after visiting Python Cave, a shallow groove cut into the Maramagambo Forest in Uganda that is home to thousands of ...
MacRumors

Resize the Clock Display on Your iPhone Lock Screen

When Apple released iOS 26, it switched up the Lock Screen so that the clock can be expanded to fill more of the display, making it easier to read. This can be done in Customize mode thanks to a drag ...
Harvard Business Review

How Designing with Disability in Mind Sparks Innovation

In 2003, when plumbing fixtures industry veteran Rob Buete first encountered the “walk-in tub” made by a startup called Safety Tub, he burst out laughing. A bathtub with a door? It seemed like a joke, ...
Electronic Design

Clock Domain Crossing and Synchronizers (Part 1): Metastability Modeling

Metastability is bound to occur in VLSI designs during clock domain crossing. For a robust and reliable design, metastability needs to be mitigated. To understand how to resolve it and how to build a ...
Physics World

NPL unveils miniature atomic fountain clock

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock. (Courtesy: NPL) A miniature version of an atomic fountain clock has been ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Design Challenges Of Clock Integrity And Clock Jitter

Signal integrity is one of the many challenges faced by chip designers. Deep submicron technologies are unfriendly hosts for the nice, clean signals desired. The culprits that compromise signal ...
The New York Times

Britain Gets Its First New Rail Clock Design in a Half Century

In a nod to history, the digital clock’s seconds indicator incorporates the British railway system’s renowned double arrow logo. By Susanne Fowler Reporting from London Train stations are known for ...