In many ways, electronic products resemble living organisms. For example, they have a central brain that might be a very simple 8-bit MCU or an extremely complex, multicore SoC. Their circulatory ...

The classical quartz crystal oscillator is historically one of the most fragile components in an electronic system. This is not surprising since the quartz crystal resonator within the oscillator was ...

In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...

Using this Pierce-oscillator circuit, users can test and verify the basic operation of a crystal in parallel-resonance mode. It allows the user to calculate and set the critical external capacitor ...

Do high voltages affect the resonant frequency of a crystal? Honestly, we never thought about it, but [Joe] did and decided to risk his analyzer to find out. He started with some decidedly old-school ...