Clock Signal in Electronic Systems

The clock signal used in electronic system has two functional characteristics: frequency and phase. There are many terminologies used in the literature to describe this clock edge uncertainty: period jitter, absolute jitter, cycle-to-cycle jitter, long term jitter, accumulated jitter, random jitter, deterministic jitter, root mean square (rms) jitter, peak-to-peak jitter, periodic jitter, total jitter, etc. In an electronic system, the clock signal is created to control pace and record time. All VLSI chips are designed for processing information. This task can be further divided into two categories: computation and communication. In the construction of a synchronous system, the clock is the signal that requires the highest priority. In clock implementation, there are two different fields: clock generation and clock distribution. Controlled Vocabulary Terms clocks; electronic components; jitter; Neuromorphics