#CHIPS "CMOS oscillator said to beat quartz"

IDT3C02 oscillator (on top) can be wirebonded to the OEMs application specific integrated circuit (ASIC, on bottom)

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 parts per million (ppm). Look for timing chips to become integrated with the chips they are controlling thereby eliminating an extra package over the next three years. RColinJohnson, Kyoto Prize Fellow @NextGenLog

IDT mixed signal die for its all-silicon CMOS oscillator houses a large inductor (top) surrounded by its compensation circuitry.

Here is what EETimes says about CMOS oscillators: Synchronizing high-speed digital circuitry needs rock-solid time bases, which usually means quartz-crystal based oscillators. CMOS oscillator makers, however, claim to be pioneering a new breed of digital time bases that are faster than quartz crystals yet smaller and lower power than MEMS
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