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Related to oscillator: crystal oscillator, Hartley oscillator, RC Phase shift Oscillator

os·cil·la·tor

(os'si-lā'tŏr),

1. An apparatus something like a vibrator, used to give a form of mechanical massage.

2. An electric circuit designed to generate alternating current at a particular frequency.

3. Any device that produces oscillation.

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os·cil·la·tor

(os'si-lā'tŏr)

1. An apparatus something like a vibrator, used to give a form of mechanical massage.

2. An electric circuit designed to generate alternating current at a particular frequency.

3. Any device that produces oscillation.

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oscillator

(ŏs′ĭ-lā″tor)

1. Device for producing oscillations.

2. An electronic circuit that will produce an oscillating current of a certain frequency.

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MEMS technology is making great inroads into oscillator applications where their lower cost offers an attractive solution.

Putting Crystals in Their Rightful Place: COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE OF QUARTZ CRYSTAL AND MEMS OSCILLATORS IN HIGH-RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS

3 (a) is the architecture chosen in this work, for a 3-stage ring oscillator as shown in Fig.

A Low Phase Noise Multi-Gigahertz Ring based Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator in 0.13 [micro]m CMOS Technology

Unlike the existing solutions, which measure only the temperature of the quartz crystal, with the introduction of the loop compensation oscillator in the same compartment, the proposed solution will compensate all thermal influences, including the ones due to electronic components (capacitors, voltage references, etc.).

Active Frequency Stabilization Method for Sensitive Applications Operating in Variable Temperature Environments

Here, [GAMMA] = 1 represents a hard Duffing oscillator, [GAMMA] = -1 represents a soft Duffing oscillator, and [GAMMA] = - represents linearity.

Effective Negative Mass Nonlinear Acoustic Metamaterial with Pure Cubic Oscillator

Inaba et al., "Sudden change from chaos to oscillation death in the Bonhoeffer-van der Pol oscillator under weak periodic perturbation," Physical Review E, vol.

Stabilization of a Network of the FitzHugh-Nagumo Oscillators by Means of a Single Capacitor Based RC Filter Feedback Technique

When each antenna is equipped with an independent oscillator, the received time-domain signal can be expressed as

Phase Noise Effect on MIMO-OFDM Systems with Common and Independent Oscillators

For each DUT, the calculated average power, P, of the noise spurs over the 80 MHz to 1 GHz range was used as a measure of the EMS of the oscillator. The average spur power was calculated as

MEMS oscillators with improved resilience for harsh automotive environments

The parameter method [16] gives the approximate solution for the generalized Duffing and non-integer order oscillator equations.

Parameters approach applied on nonlinear oscillators

Khwaja, "An integrable gm-C quadrature oscillator," International Journal of Electronics, vol.

Electronically tunable quadrature oscillator using grounded components with current and voltage outputs

Considering the influence of stochastic noise, average number density of excitatory and inhibitory neural oscillator population is introduced as

The effect of inhibitory neuron on the evolution model of higher-order coupling neural oscillator population

The researchers were able to create a small network of oscillators to solve graph coloring problems with the same number of objects, which are also referred to as nodes or vertices.