Measuring the solar cycle by monitoring the rhythm of the sun's magnetic field could help predict solar flare surges that can damage communication systems on Earth. When you purchase through links on ...

For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...

At a logical level, synchronous designs are very simple and the clock just happens. But the clocking network is possibly the most complex in a chip, and it’s fraught with the most problems at the ...

Molecular clocks in our cells synchronize our bodies with the cycle of night and day, cue us for sleep and waking, and drive daily cycles in virtually every aspect of our physiology. Scientists ...

Most biochemical reactions accelerate as temperature increases, but our daily circadian rhythms, which are underlain by gene regulatory and biochemical networks, remain constant, even as temperatures ...

In an era when power has become a fundamental design constraint, questions persist about whether asynchronous logic has a role to play. It is a design style said to have significant benefits and yet ...

RAM timings are a critical aspect of memory performance, often overlooked in favor of more glamorous specifications like clock speed and capacity. However, these timings play a significant role in ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

In one case, the variation in clock period width from the ideal will be recorded. This quantity is termed period jitter. Cycle-to-cycle jitter is the change in period width from one clock cycle to the ...