Silicon Oscillator – Benefits of Silicon Oscillator
Today, the high-end Silicon Oscillators that are based on MEMS technology are fast replacing the conventional Crystal and Quartz oscillators. These Silicon oscillators are completely built on Silicon wafers and contain no quartz crystals. They typically use a MEMS resonator which is married to an analog silicon clock IC that generates the electrical clock signal.Today, Silicon Oscillators are used to replace all kinds of legacy clock components which are based on crystal or quartz technology. Because of the benefits that they offer, these Silicon Oscillators based on MEMS technology are rapidly replacing legacy components. Notable advantages that these new age oscillators provide users consist of robustness to vibration, humidity and shock that makes them an apt solution for products and goods that needs to be operated in tough environments.
Notable Silicon Oscillator component providers are now offering ultra performance oscillators that offer 600 femtoseconds of integrated RMS phase jitter and ±10ppm frequency stability across various temperature ranges, including industrial (-40 C to +85C), thus surpassing the rigorous SONET clocking requirements. All these MEMS-based Silicon Oscillators have been designed using MEMS technology and and with their innovative features, they are gaining in popularity as the timing components of choice in storage, networking, wireless and telecom applications.
Additional benefits of these devices are listed below:
* Offers greater design margin for high temperature applications
* Allows improved product robustness in rough environments
* Lengthens product life in rough environments
* Easily customizable for best possible system performance
* 100% drop-in replacement of crystal oscillators
* Broad product portfolio, which enables supply chain consolidation and reduction of vendor base
* 6 decimal places of frequency accuracy
* Large frequency range, up to 220 MHz for LVCMOS and 800 MHz for differential.
These Silicon Oscillators can also be used in other fields such as medical, aerospace, automotive and industrial.
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