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A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of measurement of fourth dimension in the International System of Units (SI) equal to ane billionth of a 2nd, that is, 1⁄1 000 000 000 of a second, or x⁻⁹ seconds.

The term combines the SI prefix nano- indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit of measurement (e.thou. nanogram, nanometre, etc.) and 2d, the primary unit of measurement of fourth dimension in the SI.

A nanosecond is equal to 1000 picoseconds or 1⁄1000 microsecond. Time units ranging betwixt x^−eight and 10⁻⁷ seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of nanoseconds.

Time units of this granularity are commonly found in telecommunications, pulsed lasers, and related aspects of electronics.

Mutual measurements [edit]

0.001 nanoseconds – one picosecond
0.five nanoseconds – the half-life of beryllium-13.
0.96 nanoseconds – 100 Gigabit Ethernet Interpacket gap
ane.0 nanosecond – bike fourth dimension of an electromagnetic wave with a frequency of ane GHz (ane×x⁹ hertz).
one.0 nanosecond – electromagnetic wavelength of 1 light-nanosecond. Equivalent to 0.3m radio band.
1.016703362164 nanoseconds (by definition) – time taken past low-cal to travel 1 pes in a vacuum.^{[n 1]}
3.3356409519815 nanoseconds (by definition) – time taken past calorie-free to travel 1 metre in a vacuum.^[1]
8 nanoseconds - typical propagation delay of 74HC serial logic chips based on HCMOS engineering science, commonly used for digital electronics in the mid-1980s.^[2]
x nanoseconds – one "shake", (every bit in a "shake of a lamb's tail") guess fourth dimension of 1 generation of a nuclear concatenation reaction with fast neutrons
ten nanoseconds – cycle time for frequency 100 MHz (1×10⁸ hertz), radio wavelength 3 m (VHF, FM ring)
x nanoseconds – half-life of lithium-12
12 nanoseconds – mean lifetime of a charged Thou meson^[3]
20–twoscore nanoseconds – time of fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb
30 nanoseconds – half-life of carbon-21
77 nanoseconds – a sixth (a 60th of a 60th of a 60th of a 60th of a second)
96 nanoseconds – Gigabit Ethernet Interpacket gap
100 nanoseconds – wheel fourth dimension for frequency x MHz, radio wavelength 30 yard (shortwave)
299 nanoseconds – half-life of polonium-212
333 nanoseconds – cycle time of highest medium wave radio frequency, 3 MHz
500 nanoseconds – T1 time of Josephson phase qubit (encounter also Qubit) as of May 2005
one,000 nanoseconds – 1 microsecond

See likewise [edit]

International Arrangement of Units
Jiffy (time)
Microsecond
Millisecond
Orders of magnitude (time)
Picosecond
Second

References [edit]

Notes

^ By definition of the "pes" as exactly 1/three yards, and of the international thousand every bit "exactly 0.9144 metres", and of the metre (SI unit) defined past the International Bureau of Weights and Measures every bit the "length of the path traveled by low-cal in vacuum during a time interval of i/299792458 of a second". The fourth dimension taken past calorie-free to travel 1 foot in a vacuum is therefore (one/299792458)ten(0.9144/three) seconds, or i.016703362164 nanoseconds.

Citations

^ "Official BIPM definition of the metre". BIPM. Archived from the original on 2003-10-29. Retrieved 2008-09-22 .
^ Philips Semiconductors. "74HC-T-U-User-Guide" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
^ Beringer, J. "K^±" (PDF). pdg.lbl.gov.

External links [edit]

Visual representation of a nanosecond Grace Hopper explains the nanosecond