Time Synchronization is Crucial in Modern Electronics

Feb. 28, 2024

Precision timing is critical to all connected embedded systems, from the board level to the network to the cloud, as all those involved must be synchronized.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

This video is part of the TechXchange: Oscillations, Timing, and Synchronization.

Keeping proper time synchronization in a network has been important ever since we began using trains and had to create time zones to properly schedule things. Precision timing is critical to connected embedded systems, from the board level to the network to the cloud, as all of those attached systems must be synchronized in time.

Challenging 100-year-old quartz-based legacy technology, MEMS-based oven-controlled oscillators (OCXOs) provide an ultra-stable clock to data-center and network infrastructure equipment. We talked to Piyush Sevalia, Executive Vice President of Marketing at SiTime, about timing, the cloud, and this solution.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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