Robin Ash

SiTime’s precision timing solutions won the top honor in the advanced materials category in the 2023 LEAP (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) Awards.

Silicon MEMS timing is disrupting the quartz timing industry. The 3rd generation of SiTime MEMS is accelerating this market transformation, and winning accolades such as Best in Show at embedded world by Embedded Computing Design. Discover what makes this technology a winner.

This blog covers a third area in the many benefits that come from using a programmable timing architecture. From short lead times to reduced qualification efforts, a flexible oscillator platform gives customers unique supply chain advantages.

Programmability improves electronic product design in several ways. Some benefits are more obvious, such as faster development time. Some are performance related. Other benefits, covered in this blog, lead to decreased size and power in somewhat surprising, lesser known ways.

In this blog, the first in a series on the benefits of programmable timing features, we list the top performance-related advantages that come from using a programmable timing system—one that offers very short lead times and a huge range of options.

TCXOs and OCXOs are designed to provide tight stability as temperatures change, yet they’re difficult to find with temp rating above +85°C. So what happens when thermal management systems fail? See surprising results as we push the limits of various oscillators to test stability beyond temp range.

Here we circle back to how new MEMS OCXOs make design and development easier, recapping how Emerald OCXOs solve board-level design issues and highlighting six advantages related to programmability, size, and power.

We dive into the most important timing requirements for telecom applications—focusing on specifications relating to stability—share performance examples, and further unveil details about the Emerald Platform™ OCXOs, a new game-changing solution.

Oven-controlled oscillators offer the pinnacle of performance in timing which few timing suppliers can achieve. Learn about the basics of OCXOs—how they achieve precise stability as well as their difficulties, especially related to board design and dynamic conditions.