EDN

CMOS oscillator said to beat quartz

PORTLAND, Ore.— Integrated Device Technology Inc. has introduced what it claims is the world's most accurate all-silicon CMOS oscillator with the industry's highest frequency accuracy, measured in ...
Electronic Design

Transform Traditional Frequency Control With CMOS+MEMS Integration

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

20-MHz CMOS IC Oscillator Says Goodbye To External Components

All-silicon-based clock-oscillator ICs have always been available for applications that don't require high levels of precision. Yet these devices don't meet the tight tolerance requirements many ...
Hackaday

CMOS Oscillator Circuit Gets An Eatable Input

In interaction designer [Leonardo Amico]’s work Processing Decay, lettuce is used as an input to produce sound as an element within a CMOS circuit. We’ve all seen lemons and potatoes doubling in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Designing and Simulating Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits Using Four-Parameter Model

New technical paper titled “Bridging the Gap between Design and Simulation of Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits” from researchers at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. “This work proposes a truly ...
Nature

CMOS Current Mirrors and Low-Voltage Circuit Design

CMOS current mirrors are pivotal in modern electronic circuitry, providing accurate current replication that is essential for biasing, amplification and active loading in a myriad of integrated ...