In the power generation industry, accurate time-keeping by supervisory control systems is of utmost importance. Operational failures can propagate rapidly across plant systems and trigger a chain ...

The AD9548 clock generator/synthesizer is the first clock IC that lets designers use the standard, free 1-pulse/s signal of GPS satellites to generate and synchronize clock signals for communications ...

Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the late 1990s, when "interactive online multimedia" was mostly a gleam in its boosters' eyes, ...

Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Paul Skoog, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsemi Corp. Increasingly strict industry mandates for highly accurate ...

We originally discussed how clock synchronization works on the Bloomberg Terminal in September 2016. At that time, we had solutions in place for U.S. broker compliance with FINRA Rule 7430. These ...

There were 300 fewer clocks for Facilities Management to turn back for daylight saving time last weekend. Those clocks in classrooms around campus have been replaced during the past few weeks with ...

The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync ...