Clocks & Timers

Clocks & Timers

Analog Devices clock ICs and timing solutions enable new architectures, lower development and manufacturing costs, and shorter design times. Products feature low jitter and phase noise for clock cleanup, synchronization, generation, delay, and distribution. Likewise, ADI’s clock expertise has translated into a portfolio of wired network clocks that deliver the same high level of jitter performance along with industry-leading innovation in all digital PLLs and holdover/switchover circuitry specific to wired applications.

Clock & Data Recovery

Analog Devices provides discrete rate, multirate, and continuous tuning clock and data recovery ICs for equipment designs, including metro, long haul, DWDM, and FSO applications. ADI CDRs allow easy integration into protocol agnostic applications, automatically locking onto incoming data streams at any rate between 12.3 Mbps to 2.7 Gbps without the aid of a reference clock while reporting the acquired data rate over the I2C interface.

Clocks

Pulse & PWM Generators

Real Time Clocks & Timers

Real-time clock (RTC) ICs are used in electronic circuits to keep track of time relative to the “real” world. Maintaining accurate time is critical, especially under periods of severe system stress or when the power of the main device is off. During these times, RTC ICs must provide robust performance and will often draw power from an auxiliary battery or supercapacitor. As expected, power consumption is a key factor in most real-time clock designs, in addition to accuracy, ruggedness, and small package size. Most modern RTCs reduce the number of pins required by supporting a serial interface. We offer a wide variety of highly accurate, low power, small package, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based real-time clocks to suit any of your solution needs.

Analog Design Tool: ADIsimCLK™

ADIsimCLK is the design tool developed specifically for Analog Devices' range of ultra-low jitter clock distribution and clock generation products. Whether your application is in wireless infrastructure, instrumentation, networking, broadband, ATE or other areas demanding predictable clock performance, ADIsimCLK will enable you to rapidly develop, evaluate and optimize your design. It is a highly successful tool for predicting phase noise and jitter for ADI clock products.

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