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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MEMS-Based Silicon Oscillator – Features and Benefits

In the past five years, MEMS-based Silicon oscillators have been replacing quartz oscillators in electronic applications. MEMS-based Silicon oscillators have numerous advantages over quartz including more features, higher performance, faster availability, higher robustness and reliability, along with a lower cost.

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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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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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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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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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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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