EDN

The CS4350 PLL DAC Simplifies System Design

Typical Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) require a high-speed Master Clock to clock their digital filters and modulators, as well as some portions of their discrete time analog circuitry. This ...
Design-Reuse

Creating a Frequency Plan for a System using a PLL

How do you ensure that every part of a system receives the clock it needs—without wasting power or sacrificing performance? The answer lies in creating a well-structured frequency plan built around a ...
EDN

System Clock Generators: A Comparison of a PLL Synthesizer vs. a Crystal Oscillator Clock

An electronic system requires a reliable, precision timing reference: the system clock. We examine and compare two forms of system clocks, the Crystal Oscillator and the Phase Locked Loop Synthesizer ...
Electronic Design

Programmable Clock Generator Solves System-Timing Woes

Flexible clock chip tackles design and timing issues by integrating 2 kbits of in-system-programmable EEPROM and 16 kbits of extra EEPROM storage. Timing within all digital and most mixed ...