Building a crystal clock source for a CPU used to be a bit of an effort but these days, there’s nothing to it. Even if your CPU or other device needs an external clock, you just slap in an in… ...

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… ...

32.768 kHz Crystal oscillator 040TSMC_OSC_01 is a CMOS inverter of a Pierce-type variation with an integrated Temperature Compensated Crystal (Xtal) Oscillator (TCXO) and a 32.768 ...

This Design Idea shows how to build a reliable, low-cost, and simple inductance tester. The basis for the tester is a Pierce buffered CMOS oscillator (Figure 1). Instead of using the usual quartz ...

Crystal oscillators are as relevant today for electronics circuits as they were more than 50 years ago. Due to their accuracy and reliability XOs can be used in the most sophisticated ...