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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Tags: TCXO  MEMS oscillators  VCXO 

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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Tags: oscillators  VCXO  Clock Generator  TCXO 

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 

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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The Unique Features and Benefits of Silicon MEMS Differential Oscillators

A differential oscillator is used as reference timing sources in very high performance electronic systems. Typically, differential oscillators have a frequency in excess of 100 MHz, though frequencies below that are also occasionally used.

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Tags: Voltage Controlled Oscillator  TCXO  Crystal Oscillator  differential oscillator 

What is a VCXO? Why is a VCXO used in Electronics?

A VCXO – Voltage Controlled Oscillator – is a reference timing component that is commonly used in telecom, consumer and industrial electronics. A VCXO differs from an XO (Oscillator) in that it offers an capability to “fine-tune” the output frequency within a certain range, after the device is already populated in a system. This capability is not available on XOs.

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Tags: Silicon Oscillator  Crystal oscillator  Differential Oscillator  TCXO  Voltage Controlled Oscillator 

MEMS Based Oscillators Outperform Quartz-Based Oscillators

SiTime’s MEMS Oscillators, VCXO, and TCXO long term aging and jitter performance are comparable to, or better than, quartz-based oscillators. As you can see, the performance barrier has been shattered.SiTime’s MEMS oscillators simplify system designs and open the door to new applications.

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Tags: VCXO  TCXO  Crystal oscillators  Differential Oscillator  Silicon Oscillator 

What is a TCXO Timing Component? Why is it Important in Electronics?

"A TCXO is a Temperature Compensated Oscillator.
The frequency stability (variation of frequency) of quartz oscillators varies significantly with temperature changes."

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Tags: crystal oscillator  TCXO  Silicon Oscillator  Voltage Controlled Oscillator 

Top Ten Things to Know About MEMS Oscillators

MEMS oscillators offer very high performance – stability as good as 0.5 PPM over the industrial temperature range, 500 femtoseconds of integrated RMS phase jitter.

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Tags: Silicon Oscillator  Quartz Oscillator  TCXO  VCXO  crystal oscillator 

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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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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Tags: clock oscillators  crystal oscillators  MEMS oscillators  Vcxo  TCXO