Tech Vocabulary - Help me Find the Right Word(s)

[kfnight]

Let's call a bus's clock "free-running" if it is always oscillating even when there is no transmission of data. An example of a free-running clock would be a non-gated PCLK clock in APB. What do we call a clock that only oscillates during transmission of data? An example would be SPI's SCLK.

[hans]

Suggestion: a gated clock

It's only enabled when needs to be active.

[Yansi]

Or just a strobe signal

[RES]

Serial clock (SCK). Burst.

[CustomEngineerer]

PS. If you are a marketing person, you can call it "clock-on-demand" .

Next gen ultra efficiency clock?