Sunday, June 5, 2016

Clocking-the computer system engine


In order to understand what clocking is and what role it plays in computing, we need to reveal the general building blocks of a computing system. This post provides a "programmer" high level view of systems and clocking. No terms regarding to electronics or electric circuits theory are used here. We focus on providing pure logic view of the system. To make it as short as possible, two crucial terms will be explained here: "System topology" and "Clock distribution".