If you want a stable oscillator, you usually think of using a crystal. The piezoelectric qualities of quartz means that it can be cut in a particular way that it will oscillate at a very precise ...

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...

Housed in an industry-standard 0.5×0.5-in. surface-mount package, the CVCO33BE-6000-6000 voltage-controlled oscillator from Crystek has a tuning voltage range of 0.5 VDC to 4.5 VDC and typical phase ...

Voltage-controlled oscillator-based analog-to-digital converters (VCO-based ADCs) represent an emerging class of digitisation circuits that harness the frequency-modulating properties of VCOs to ...

A phase-locked loop (PLL) is a feedback system that combines a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a phase detector in such a way that the oscillator signal tracks an applied frequency or ...

where f O is the oscillation frequency.With a suitable choice of the valuesof inductors and capacitors, the circuitcan oscillate at frequencies as high as10 MHz. The output clock’s duty cycle ...

Researchers have modeled how the combination of a virtual oscillator control mechanism and a cascaded sliding mode control can help regulate voltage and frequency in a distributed-solar microgrid.

Oscillator drift remains one of the most critical threats to precision timing in high-performance communication systems. In ...

To alleviate the drawbacks of quartz oscillator technology, classic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) materials are now being used to fabricate three-dimensional resonating structures. These ...