With regard to retro test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no other ...

Its Achille’s heel in terms of accuracy is the plain crystal oscillator it uses as a frequency standard, which has no temperature compensation and thus drifts by about 0.2 ppm per degree.

An oscillator that uses a quartz crystal to generate a frequency. Such devices generally output a fixed frequency, but some can be controlled by a tuning voltage over a small range. Contrast with VCO.

The OSC-XTAL-32k-TS-22ULL.01 32 kHz crystal oscillator is an excellent choice for IoT SoC designed in TSMC 22nm ULL technology with stringent power consumption constraints. It features a high accuracy ...

By placing the nonlinear crystal in a cavity, an oscillator is formed and operation commences when the pump power is above a certain threshold value. A unique feature of OPOs is that the output ...

This chapter presents the concept of feedback, which means looping back a portion of the output voltage or current of an amplifier to control the system within ... on positive feedback and resonant ...