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 Last Updated on: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:34 AM


Charge Pump Circuits    Crystal Oscillators
 

VERY LOW POWER GATED CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR
The circuit gates the output of a continuously operating 32KHz crystal oscillator to the input of a C-MOS buffer when clock pulses are needed. The technique gets around the problem of a slow starting crystal oscillator by keeping the oscillator going and switching on a transistor power stage only as needed. The method keeps the standby power consumption to a very low 1uA when used with a 3v supply.

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Low Power Gated Crystal Oscillator designed by David Johnson, P.E. (June 3, 2000)

Charge Pump Circuits    Crystal Oscillators
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