Can a crystal clock be started and stopped?

✍ Scribed by Jerome R. Cox Jr.

• Book ID: 103924977
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 283 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-9659
• DOI: 10.1016/0893-9659(88)90171-1

✦ Synopsis

A circuit is described that, with only modest constraints, allows a computer clock signal derived from a crystal to be started at an arbitrary time and later be stopped. The clock may not be practical in the form described, but does demonstrate the existence of a "stoppable" crystal clock, a device that may be useful in the design of failure-free communication links in multiclock systems.