EDN

CMOS oscillator said to beat quartz

PORTLAND, Ore.— Integrated Device Technology Inc. has introduced what it claims is the world's most accurate all-silicon CMOS oscillator with the industry's highest frequency accuracy, measured in ...
Hackaday

A Crystal Oscillator For A Stable Bench Reference

[Paul] likes a precise oscillator. His recent video shows a crystal oscillator with a “watch crystal” and a CMOS counter, the CD4060. Using such a circuit can produce very stable frequencies and since ...
New Electronics

Quartz –crystal level performance with cmos oscillator, says IDT

Integrated Device Technology has announced the availability of all-silicon cmos oscillators in wafer and package forms. According to the mixed signal semiconductor specialist, it is the only company ...
Nature

Low-Power CMOS Oscillator Design and Applications

Low-power CMOS oscillators are integral to modern electronic systems that demand precise timing or frequency references while operating under stringent energy constraints. These circuits underpin a ...
EDN

All-silicon CMOS oscillator is industry’s most accurate

The IDT3C02 all-silicon CMOS oscillator is offered as the most accurate device of its kind — achieving a 100-ppm total frequency error across temperature, voltage ...
Electronic Design

Ring-Oscillator Process Monitors for Wafer-Level CMOS Screening

Ring-oscillator process monitors give production test teams a fast on-die frequency measurement for identifying CMOS process ...
MSN on MSN

A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates ...
New Electronics

‘Most accurate’ cmos oscillator

IDT has announced what it believes to be the most accurate all silicon cmos oscillator, which has a total frequency error across temperature, voltage and other ...
Electronic Design

Transform Traditional Frequency Control With CMOS+MEMS Integration

To alleviate the drawbacks of quartz oscillator technology, classic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) materials are now being used to fabricate three-dimensional resonating structures. These ...
Electronics Weekly

Silicon Labs replaces crystal oscillator with CMOS chip

Dubbed Si500, “it generates any frequency from 900kHz to 200MHz and phase jitter is 2ps(RMS) maximum, 1.5ps typical”, said the firm. Period jitter at 100MHz is typically under 0.8ps. Silicon Labs has ...
Hackaday

CMOS Oscillator Circuit Gets An Eatable Input

In interaction designer [Leonardo Amico]’s work Processing Decay, lettuce is used as an input to produce sound as an element within a CMOS circuit. We’ve all seen lemons and potatoes doubling in ...
Electronics Weekly

Toshiba: ‘most accurate all-CMOS oscillator’

Toshiba has developed a quartz-replacing all-CMOS +/-85ppm oscillator, claiming it to be the most accurate in its class. Presented at the VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, the 24MHz RC oscillator was ...