Integrated Circuit Oscillator
Integrated Circuit Oscillator. Relaxation Oscillator, are mostly used in Integrated Circuits (IC). A Voltage Controlled Oscillator is an oscillator which produces oscillating signals (waveforms) with variable frequency.
A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that is used for the mechanical resonance of a vibrating crystal of piezoelectric material.
The phase shift across a series resonant circuit is zero.
Modern surface-mount and radio-frequency integrated-circuit (RFIC) VCOs, however, owe their Oscillators have been essential components since Edwin Armstrong discovered the heterodyne. LC oscillators can be divided into three types: mutual inductance coupled oscillators, inductive feedback oscillators and capacitive. An integrated continuous-time chaotic oscillator capable of operating at very high frequencies is presented and its application to a high-speed random bit generator is described.