Crystal oscillators are incredibly useful components, but they come with one little snag: their oscillation is temperature-dependent. For many applications the relatively small deviation is not a p… ...

We are always glad to see [Ken Shirriff] tear into something new and this month he’s looking inside a quartz oscillator module. Offhand, you’d think there’s not much to these. A s… ...

Quartz crystals, a piezoelectric material, provide a rock-solid mechanical time reference for traditional electronic oscillators by permitting them to sync with its mechanical vibrations. Using a ...

Figure 2 illustrates one way of implementing a quartz oscillator—combining a quartz crystal, oscillating circuit, and output driver. 2.

However, quartz crystals are so good at tuning these low frequencies that years ago, researchers were able to apply a technique called electrical frequency division that could convert higher-frequency ...

In comparison, the crystal oscillator is very simple and depends heavily on the very high “Q” quartz crystal resonator as the sole frequency-determining element shown in Figure 1c.

Just because you can make a quartz crystal from a mineral, do not assume that a crystal oscillator is a low-tech device (Reference 3). Manufacturers of today’s quartz crystals grow the crystals in ...

Inside every computer is a chip that surrounds a quartz crystal oscillator to record time. The crystals used for computer clocks are made with stones that cost about 25 cents a piece to produce ...

Dimension and structural proportion of SMD-type quartz oscillator, 1999-2010 Ranking of the world's top 14 crystal oscillator manufacturers by revenue, 2004-2006 ...