The most common gate oscillator in use today is by far the Pierce-Gate. Its popularity stems from the fact that the digital inverter, U1, is usuall...

In the not too distance past, procuring a low phase noise 1 GHz source was very expensive, limiting it to only very high-end applications that coul...

A popular application for the voltage-controlled crystal oscillator is the forming of a phase-locked loop. Designing the VCXO for this application ...