Hackaday

Master Clock System Uses All Logic, No Microcontrollers

What you see above is a master clock. It is the center of a system that can run an unlimited number of slave clocks, keeping them on-time thanks to its ability to synchronize with an atomic clock.
Hackaday

Pipelining Digital Logic In FPGAs

When you first learn about digital logic, it probably seems like it is easy. You learn about AND and OR gates and figure that’s not very hard. However, going from a few basic gates to something like a ...
EurekAlert!

NIST's second 'quantum logic clock' based on aluminum ion is now world's most precise clock

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the ...
EurekAlert!

NIST 'quantum logic clock' rivals mercury ion as world's most accurate clock

BOULDER, Colo.- An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single ...
Design-Reuse

Clock Gate Logic Aware Design Closure

Silicon On Chip (SOC) consists of several logical gates connected to define some functionality. Timing Closure being a well known art to ensure that every single timing path between consecutive ...
Embedded

Leveraging FPGA and CPLD digital logic to implement analog to digital converters

Designers of digital systems are familiar with implementing the 'leftovers' of their digital design by using FPGAs and CPLDs to glue together various processors, memories, and standard function ...