EDN

Design faults leading to clock and data glitches

With the increasing complexity of SoCs, multiple and independent clocks are essential in the design. The design specifications require system level muxing of some of these clocks before they are sent ...
EDN

Binary Clock Design

The Basic Stamp Homework Board (BSHWB) microcontroller, the PIC16C57, is a surprisingly useful and somewhat powerful microcontroller which I decided to choose for designing a binary clock, along with ...
Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Clocks – Design Your Own Clock

We have seen quite a few different geeky clocks here on Geeky Gadgets, and the latest one is a simple yet clever idea, the ‘Design Your Own Clock‘ clock. Basically, the Design Your Own Clock is a ...
Design-Reuse

Auto Clock Generation in a SoC

This paper discusses a novel idea on automatic clocks generation for a SoC. A standard configurable input file has all the required clock requirements in a SoC given by the designer. A scripting ...
Electronic Design

PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...