Clock speed is equivalent to data movement in applications that receive and process hundreds of megabytes of data each second. Applications involved in moving enormous volumes of data include cellular base stations and backhaul processors, medical imaging systems, and laboratory test instruments. These applications depend on receivers that can recognize multiple data threads within a single swollen stream. And they depend on precision timing circuits to transmit and extract the master clock signal.
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