• "voltage-controlled oscillator". DCOs were designed to overcome the tuning stability limitations of early VCO designs. The term "digitally controlled oscillator"...
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    A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input. The applied input voltage...
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  • A numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) is a digital signal generator which creates a synchronous (i.e., clocked), discrete-time, discrete-valued representation...
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    A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency...
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    Casio CZ synthesizers (category Digital synthesizers)
    modulation had the output of one of the oscillators affect the volume of the other oscillator, resulting in a controlled distortion. Noise modulation caused...
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  • varactor-controlled or voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) (described above in varactor under analog VFO techniques) and a phase detector, a control-loop...
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  • Device configuration overlay, of a computer hard disk drive Digitally controlled oscillator, in electronics Siemens DCO, a telephone switch Drift City...
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  • In an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL), a TDC measures the phase shift and its result is used to adjust the digital controlled oscillator (DCO). If...
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    months earlier. The Juno synthesizers introduced Roland's digitally controlled oscillators, allowing for greatly improved tuning stability over its competitors...
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  • Frequency synthesizer (category Electronic oscillators)
    applied digitally to the synthesizer in sympathy with the analog FM signal using a fast delta sigma ADC. Superheterodyne receiver Digitally controlled oscillator...
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    temperature. An oscillator of this type is known as an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO, where "XO" is an old abbreviation for "crystal oscillator"). This...
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  • generated. The most-common linear oscillator in use is the crystal oscillator, in which the output frequency is controlled by a piezo-electric resonator consisting...
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  • synthesizer - the 1020 - featuring digitally controlled oscillators instead of the voltage controlled oscillators that his 1002 synthesizer and all other...
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    Quartz clock (category Electronic oscillators)
    are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency...
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    user to play with it strapped around their neck. It utilized digitally controlled oscillators (DCOs), and was a paraphonic synth with a single filter shared...
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  • Microelectromechanical system oscillators (MEMS oscillators) are devices that generate highly stable reference frequencies used to sequence electronic...
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    Direct Digital Synthesizer consists of a frequency reference (often a crystal or SAW oscillator), a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) and a digital-to-analog...
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    beepers, as well as voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), inverters, switching power supplies, dual-slope analog to digital converters, and function generators...
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  • APLL or driven digitally through the use of a digital-to-analog converter as is the case for some DPLL designs. Pure digital oscillators such as a numerically...
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    Feedback (redirect from Fb control)
    an audio frequency oscillator. An audio oscillator produces frequencies in the audio range, about 16 Hz to 20 kHz. An RF oscillator produces signals in...
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    Varicaps are used for frequency modulation of oscillators, and to make high-frequency voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), the core component in phase-locked...
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    A ring oscillator is a device composed of an odd number of NOT gates in a ring, whose output oscillates between two voltage levels, representing true and...
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  • synthesizer to feature two oscillators per voice, and was Korg's first synthesizer to feature digitally-controlled analog oscillators (DCOs). The Poly-61 marked...
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  • sold for less than $1000. It had 8-voice polyphony with one Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) per voice. The Casio CZ-101 was the first and best-selling...
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  • In physics, an Analog Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator or Analogue Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (ATCXO) uses analog sampling techniques...
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    disciplined oscillator (GPSDO), is a combination of a GPS receiver and a high-quality, stable oscillator such as a quartz or rubidium oscillator whose output...
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    Clock (section Oscillator)
    controller is an evacuated microwave cavity attached to a microwave oscillator controlled by a microprocessor. A thin gas of caesium atoms is released into...
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  • synthesizer with six voices. It is an analog synthesizer but with digitally controlled oscillators and chorus effects. Whereas its predecessor, the Juno-60, has...
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  • synthesizers to have analogue voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) instead of analogue digitally-controlled oscillators (DCOs). The voice architecture is...
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  • 2018 by the Prophet-X, which featured sample playback and digitally controlled oscillators. On August 31, 2018, the 40th anniversary of the Prophet-5...
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