MEMS Technology Brings New Advantages to VCXO Applications

For several decades, quartz crystals have been used as the basis for a number of timing solutions. These timing devices are available in the form of quartz crystal oscillators and resonators.

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MEMS Differential Oscillators: A Competitive Advantage in Communications Systems

From processors to oscillators, performance improvement at the component level enables improvement at the system level. This translates to more features, higher performance and increased speed for end users of both consumer products and enterprise systems.

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Enhancing the Performance of Critical Electronic Applications

Temperature stability is a primary requisite in critical applications such as wireless systems, synchronous telecom and wireless networking, precision instrumentation and other applications that rely on frequency for timing executions. These critical applications require a precision reference timing source that maintains the same frequency over temperature and voltage fluctuations.

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Tags: MEMS Oscillators  VCXO  TCXO  crystal oscillator 

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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Tags: Differential Oscillator  MEMS Oscillator  clock generators 

Top Five Reasons to Replace your Quartz Oscillator

A quartz oscillator (also known as a crystal oscillator) has been the reference clock of choice in the electronics industry for many decades. Recently, this legacy device has been under attack by a host of clock devices that use a newer, more advanced technology – Silicon MEMS. Here are the Top Five reasons why you should replace your quartz oscillator with a Silicon MEMS device.

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Voltage Controlled MEMS Oscillators (MEMS VCXO) Surpass Quartz VCXO

Voltage Controlled MEMS Oscillators (VCXOs) have made significant advances, as evidenced by the introduction of the SiT380X family, designed for telecom, networking and embedded applications. The performance of these oscillators seems to indicate that they surpass quartz VCXO performance and provide new and important capabilities.

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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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The Clock Oscillator-The Shift from Quartz to MEMS

The technological era has given birth to numerous electronic gadgets. One of the most popular electronic devices ever invented is the clock. Eventually technology enabled the use of electo-mechanical resonators to generate a reliable, accurate frequency for all clocks. This became known as the modern reference clock.

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Greater Flexibility in Clock Oscillators for Enhanced

A crystal oscillator is an electronic circuit that is used for creating electrical signals of an accurate frequency. These frequencies are required for providing stable clock signals in digital integrated circuits and also for the purpose of stabilizing frequencies for radio transmitters and receivers. Quartz crystals are manufactured for developing resonators that are used commonly in wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers and cell phones. They are also used in test and measurement and medical equipment.

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Programmable Clock Oscillators Provide the Right Reference Clock, Every Time

A reference clock oscillator in electronics has long been the domain of fixed-frequency devices. These devices have historically consisted of a quartz crystal, which has been cut and manufactured to operate at a precise, fixed frequency, married to an analog oscillator circuit, which operates at the same fixed frequency and a fixed voltage.

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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 

The Changing face of Electronic Circuits

The digital electronics era introduced a fundamental change in electronic circuit operation – most circuits were now being clocked synchronously. The clock oscillator became more important as it provided the reference timing to all these circuits.

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