The symbolic Doomsday Clock, a global warning signal watched around the world, has moved closer to midnight than ever before.

The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set it again. Whether it’s a little digital job on your desk, or some big analog wall clock ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

Figure 1 depicts the nature of the information provided by measuring a signal in the time domain vs. the frequency domain. Both provide insight into the content of the signal and possible approaches ...

Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) circuits form a critical component in modern digital communication systems, where the accurate extraction of timing information from data streams is paramount. These ...

There are significantly different architectures for what are known as “atomic” clocks. Optically driven atomic clocks offer a new set of performance attributes. The optical atomic clocks use paired ...

The most accurate clock in space launches within days and will begin building a highly synchronised network out of the best clocks on Earth. But the project, decades in preparation, will only operate ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Just like Goldilocks, the market for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI products) knows when something is just ...

Editor's note: Signal Chain Basics is an ongoing and popular series; click here for a complete, linked list of all installments.) In Signal Chain Basics Part 56 we discussed the fundamental ...