EDN

Spread-spectrum clocking reduces EMI in embedded systems

For years now, government institutions have beenregulating the amount of EMI (electromagneticinterference) an electronic device or system canemit. Their efforts primarily target lowering ...
Design-Reuse

PCIe goes Clockless -- Achieving independent spread-spectrum clocking without SSC isolation

PCI Express (PCIe) has established itself as the IO interconnect of choice for communication within the server and PC environment. Today, an emerging trend among designers is extending PCIe beyond the ...
EDN

PCI Express 3.0 needs reliable timing design

PCI Express (PCIe) is an important standard for chip-to-chip communications and serves as a standard for connecting motherboards to peripheral cards. It can be challenging, however, to implement the ...
Electronic Design

PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...
Electronic Design

Agilent Introduces Solution for PCI Express 3.0 Receiver Characterization

January 29, 2013. Agilent Technologies Inc. at DesignCon announced an enhanced solution for PCI Express 3.0 receiver characterization. The Agilent PCIe 3.0 receiver characterization solution provides ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Air-Gap Covert Channel Attack On Spread Spectrum Modulated Clocks (IETR, Lab-STICC)

A new technical paper titled “Clock-to-Clock Modulation Covert Channel” was published by researchers at University of Rennes-INSA Rennes-IETR-UMR and University of South Brittany/Lab-STICC- UMR CNRS. ...
Design-Reuse

PCI Express... in Your Disks???

We talk here a lot about “PCI Express Everywhere” and yesterday’s release of SATA Express by the SATA-IO group formalizes PCI Express as the successor to SATA, so now PCI Express really is in your ...