Fox Electronics now offers a small, silicon-based oscillator with extremely low jitter.

Fox Electronics now offers a small, silicon-based oscillator with extremely low jitter. The LVDS and LVPECL versions of the oscillator, which are part of Fox’s new XpressO family, cost 30% less than traditional LVDS/LVPECL quartz oscillators. Noise reducing DSM technology and proprietary low-noise architecture reduce jitter and phase noise in the 3.3V XpressO oscillator.

Its revolutionary design and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) allow for accurate performance, reduced costs, shorter lead times and increased flexibility.

The high performance XpressO oscillators are available in LVDS and LVPECL versions for XO packages, and XpressO’s ceramic package sizes are 7.5 x 5.0 and 5.0 x 3.2mm.

Because pricing does not vary depending on package size, there is no penalty for purchasing a smaller package.

The new XpressO oscillators are applicable in a variety of functions requiring extreme stabilities, from HDTV and optical networking, to broadband applications for Internet, as well as video and data transfer.

The XpressO oscillators feature a frequency range from 1.0MHz to 1.1GHz, stabilities as tight as +/-20ppm, and next day shipment for samples and within 10 days for production quantities.

Pricing for XpressO oscillators will vary depending on the output, frequency and stability needed.