Abstract: Crystal oscillators provide reliable, accurate, and stable reference signals. As such, they play the vital role of a clock for most integrated circuits. However, because the device’s initial ...

Injection locking [1] can not only improve oscillator frequency stability and phase noise, but act as a selective frequency divider as well [2][3]. You can find sample setups of a simple ...

The critical role of snubber circuits in minimizing ringing and overshoot. How snubber circuitry is evolving to adapt to trends in power electronics, like the rising interest in wide-bandgap ...

Having already examined the Colpitts oscillator, we now look at its first cousin, the Clapp oscillator. Please consider the following illustration in Figure 1. There is an R-L-C network of passive ...

RLC circuits are used to store and release energy in controlled pulses. The type of response (overdamped, critically damped, or underdamped) depends on the damping ratio, which is calculated using the ...

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Chaotic circuits can arise from either computed (using Analog Computers or Digital Computers) solutions to coupled differential equations or from unstable systems/circuits. A new open-source circuit ...

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Investors rely on various specialized tools to analyze stock prices and conditions. One of the most important tools is an oscillator. In trading, an oscillator is most often used to signal overbought ...