A System for the Measurement of the Temperature Dependence Performances of Quartz Oscillators: a Study of the Analytical Model of the Failure Rate

Author

Peretto, Lorenzo ; Rinaldi, Paola ; Duri, Carlo

Author_Institution

Univ. di Bologna, Bologna

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a method of investigation of the temperature dependence of the accuracy performances of quartz oscillators. Temperature effects may vary widely in significance depending on the environment. Quartz can be used as high stability oscillators, having oscillation frequencies ranging from few kHz to 20 MHz. A fundamental qualifying parameter is then represented by the frequency stability of the quartz crystal oscillator. For this reason, in this paper, an automatic system for the measurements of the quartz oscillation frequency as a function of changes in temperature, is presented. The system has been designed and realized in our laboratories. The results of the characterization tests and measurements are also reported and discussed.

Keywords

crystal oscillators; stability; failure rate; quartz oscillation frequency; stability oscillators; temperature dependence performance measurement; Analytical models; Communication system control; Degradation; Frequency measurement; Oscillators; Performance evaluation; Stress; Temperature dependence; Temperature measurement; Thermal stability; Quartz oscillator; failure rate; temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007. IMTC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Warsaw

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0588-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2007.379063

Filename

4258067