Almost every electronic device needs a clock source. For example, a microcontroller (MCU) uses an oscillator to advance the next instruction, and a radio needs an accurate oscillator to mix ...

The timing component is the heartbeat of electronic systems and it can have a significant impact to the performance and reliability of the system. Today there are three main reference-clock oscillator ...

Integrated Device Technology has a range of CMOS oscillators, the MM8202 and the MM8102 which the company claims offers “quartz-crystal-level performance”. According to Michael McCorquodale, general ...

To ensure the authenticity of the Galileo navigation messages, the Open Service navigation message authentication (OSNMA) mechanism requires a loose synchronization between the receiver clock and the ...

A greatly simplified block diagram of an atomic frequency standard (also called an atomic clock) is shown in Figure 2.1. This consists of an atomic resonator, a local oscillator, and additional ...

As a species, we are obsessed about time. Our technological exploits rely on an increasingly exact knowledge of time. For example, some communications systems require frequency uncertainty 10-11 ...

While most applications will use a crystal oscillator, two options may be a better fit for your design: ceramic resonators and surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) resonators. Ceramic resonators are ...