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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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    resonator). Some examples of harmonic oscillators are LC oscillators and crystal oscillators. Relaxation oscillators can generate a sawtooth or triangular...
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  • Crystal oscillators can be manufactured for oscillation over a wide range of frequencies, from a few kilohertz up to several hundred megahertz. Many applications...
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  • output signal that is generated. The most-common linear oscillator in use is the crystal oscillator, in which the output frequency is controlled by a piezo-electric...
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    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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    The Pierce oscillator is a type of electronic oscillator particularly well-suited for use in piezoelectric crystal oscillator circuits. Named for its inventor...
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    A crystal oven is a temperature-controlled chamber used to maintain the quartz crystal in electronic crystal oscillators at a constant temperature, in...
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    Quartz (redirect from Rock crystal)
    quartz crystals was in phonograph pickups. One of the most common piezoelectric uses of quartz today is as a crystal oscillator. The quartz oscillator or...
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    A tri-tet oscillator is a crystal-controlled vacuum tube electronic oscillator circuit. It is a type of electron-coupled oscillator (ECO), which uses...
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  • The Hartley oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit in which the oscillation frequency is determined by a tuned circuit consisting of capacitors...
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  • single reference frequency. MEMS oscillators are a valid alternative to older, more established quartz crystal oscillators, offering better resilience against...
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    Oscillation (redirect from Oscillator)
    Relaxation oscillator RLC circuit Royer oscillator Vačkář oscillator Wien bridge oscillator Crystal oscillator Laser (oscillation of electromagnetic field...
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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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    The Butler oscillator is a crystal-controlled oscillator that uses the crystal near its series resonance point. They are used where a simple low-cost...
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  • physics, an Analog Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator or Analogue Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (ATCXO) uses analog sampling techniques...
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  • An oscillator start-up timer (OST) is a module used by some microcontrollers to keep the device reset until the crystal oscillator is stable. When a crystal...
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    ESP32 PICO system in package modules combine an ESP32 silicon chip, crystal oscillator, flash memory chip, filter capacitors, and RF matching links into...
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  • In electronics, the term local oscillator (LO) refers to an electronic oscillator when used in conjunction with a mixer to change the frequency of a signal...
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    CPU is normally determined by the frequency of an oscillator crystal. Typically a crystal oscillator produces a fixed sine wave—the frequency reference...
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    bridge oscillator is a type of electronic oscillator that generates sine waves. It can generate a large range of frequencies. The oscillator is based...
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    Clock (section Oscillator)
    in 1880. The first crystal oscillator was invented in 1917 by Alexander M. Nicholson, after which the first quartz crystal oscillator was built by Walter...
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  • Colpitts oscillator, invented in 1918 by Canadian-American engineer Edwin H. Colpitts using vacuum tubes, is one of a number of designs for LC oscillators, electronic...
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    factor Anticrystal Cocrystal Colloidal crystal Crystal growth Crystal oscillator Liquid crystal Time crystal Stephen Lower. "Chem1 online textbook—States...
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  • Frequency synthesizer (category Electronic oscillators)
    stable and accurate reference frequencies, such as those provided by a crystal oscillator. Three types of synthesizer can be distinguished. The first and second...
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  • capacitors, which vary with temperature, RC oscillators do not have as good frequency stability as crystal oscillators. The frequency of oscillation is determined...
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    beginning of the quartz revolution. The watch used a crystal oscillator for accuracy, where the crystal generates steady vibration when voltage is applied...
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    The crystal oscillator is stabilized to the rubidium transition by detecting the light dip while sweeping an RF synthesizer (referenced to the crystal) through...
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    high frequencies Crystal – a ceramic crystal used to generate precise frequencies (See the Modules class below for complete oscillators) Ceramic resonator...
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  • a crystal oscillator (on a PCB design schematics) Xtal, an abbreviation for Astral Detritus per Drakeman in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. Crystal (disambiguation)...
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  • an oscillator from its nominal frequency. Causes may include component aging, changes in temperature that alter the piezoelectric effect in a crystal oscillator...
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