Silicon Oscillator – Benefits of Silicon Oscillator

Today, the high-end Silicon Oscillators that are based on MEMS technology are fast replacing the conventional Crystal and Quartz oscillators. These Silicon oscillators are completely built on Silicon wafers and contain no quartz crystals. They typically use a MEMS resonator which is married to an analog silicon clock IC that generates the electrical clock signal.

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MEMS Oscillator – Benefits of MEMS Oscillator

Over the past decade, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have been very widely adopted in electronics. While they started out as life-saving components in the Automotive industry (air-bag sensors, tire pressure monitoring systems), they have recently been adopted by many consumer electronic devices such as SmartPhones, Tablets, Digital Cameras, gaming systems, etc.

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Tags: Voltage Controlled Oscillators  clock generators  Differential Oscillators 

Types of Jitter in Timing Systems

Jitter is the timing variations of a set of signal edges from their ideal values. Jitter in clock signals is typically caused by noise or other disturbances in the system. Contributing factors include thermal noise, power supply variations, loading conditions, device noise, and interference coupled from nearby circuits.

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Timing Components of Mother Board

Today’s market world is dominated by electronic gadgets. But what makes these gadgets tick accurately is the timing components. The three major timing components are resonators, oscillators and clock generators. The mother board is the primary circuit board that houses these components. So, for the mother board circuits to work in tandem, timing components must work in unison.

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Improving System Performance and Frequency Stability with New VCXOs

Oscillators provide a consistent and stable timing reference for an electronic system or for a module(s) within the system. In some applications, the output frequency of the oscillator needs to be adjusted after the system is in operation.

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Features and Applications of MEMS VCXOs

VCXOs – Voltage Controlled Oscillators – have traditionally been used for clock synchronization functions in Telecom, Networking, Wireless and Video applications in equipment such as base stations, core routers, FPGA-based systems, set top boxes and instrumentation / data acquisition equipment.

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Tags: VCXO  Clock Generator  Silicon Oscillator  Quartz Oscillator 

Features and Applications of MEMS Clock Generators

Clock Generators are timing components which integrate the clock functionality of many different discrete devices into one semiconductor component. They offer the traditional semiconductor benefits of integration, lower cost, smaller size, and full customization with minimal additional expenses.

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Tags: Silicon Oscillator  Crystal Oscillator  Voltage Controlled Oscillator  clock generator 

Voltage Controlled Oscillator – Usage of Voltage Controlled Oscillators

A voltage controlled oscillator is a timing component that allows the fine tuning of a clock frequency within an electronic system, thus allowing a receiving system to be synchronized with a transmitting system that is not at the same location.

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Silicon MEMS VCXO Surpasses Quartz

As semiconductors have grown in popularity, electronics manufacturers have turned to Silicon MEMS Timing solutions for their clocking needs. Silicon MEMS Timing solutions provide easy customization due to programmability,consistently high quality and reliability & significant integration compared to Quarts that have many inherent limitations

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Tags: VCXO  Clock Generator  Differential Oscillator  MEMS Oscillator  TCXO 

MEMS Oscillators Outperform LC Oscillators

SiTime’s MEMS oscillators simplify system designs and open the door to new applications. Though an LC oscillator will operate at any frequency within its range, they do not operate beyond approximately 200 MHz. SiTime’s single-ended LVTTL/CMOS compatible MEMS oscillators operate at any frequency up to 220 MHz and the differential oscillator family expands the frequency to 800 MHz.

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Tags: Voltage Controlled Oscillator  TCXO  crystal oscillator  Silicon Oscillator  Clock Generator  VCXO