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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is a Differential Oscillator? Where can it be used in Electronics?

Differential oscillators are usually used to provide higher frequencies in very high performance systems where single-ended clocks do not perform well, such as the examples listed above. Typically, differential oscillators are used at frequencies above 100 MHz, because the rise times of differential clocks are usually much faster, and can support these high frequencies.

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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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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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