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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>clock</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="clobber.html" title="clobber"/><link rel="next" href="clocks.html" title="clocks"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">clock</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clobber.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="clocks.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="clock"/><dt xmlns="" id="clock"><b>clock</b></dt></dt><dd><p><span class="grammar">n.,v.</span> </p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other
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digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do with the time of
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day, although the software counter that keeps track of the latter may be
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derived from the former. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To run a CPU or other
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digital circuit at a particular rate. “<span class="quote">If you clock it at 1000MHz, it
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gets warm.</span>”. See <a href="../O/overclock.html"><i class="glossterm">overclock</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To force a digital
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circuit from one state to the next by applying a single clock
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pulse. “<span class="quote">The data must be stable 10ns before you clock the
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latch.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clobber.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="clocks.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">clobber<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>clocks</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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