What a time to be alive when you can find inexpensive microcontrollers that come with programmable(ish) logic that can operate independently of the system clock. [David Johnson-Davies] recently built ...

Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a 1 Hz pulse train. It’s usual to have a 32.768 kHz crystal and a 15-stage ...

This reference design features the 8T49NS010 integrated circuit that functions as a clock synthesizer with a built-in fanout buffer and divider. By using an external clock source or a crystal, the ...

The circuit was constructed to produce a frequency divider with the use of flip flops which are the basic building blocks of sequential logic circuits while forming a T flip-flop configuration. Toggle ...

Clock-distribution devices create multiple copies of a master clock and distribute them to a variety of integrated circuits. They accept single-ended or differential clock inputs and supply multiple ...

Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has introduced the SY757xx family, a comprehensive portfolio of 1.2V-output LVCMOS clock ...

Clocking constitutes one of the most important aspect of block or SOC-level design and its architecture needs to well defined and understood during the conceptualizing/planning phase of the design. In ...

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 ...

Logic dividers are integrated circuits (ICs) that divide the frequency of an input signal by a division ratio. There are two basic types of logic dividers: Fixed Dividers - which have a division ratio ...