Manufacturing hybrid TCXOS

Author

Achille, Bob ; Collins, Tim ; Marvin, Dennis

Author_Institution

Motorola, Schaumburg, IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

2-4 Jun 1993

Firstpage

679

Lastpage

686

Abstract

The authors discuss the Saber oscillator, a thick film, temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) that was designed to provide Motorola with a small, inexpensive, highly reliable TCXO to operate as a reference oscillator for the synthesizers in its growing land mobile and cellular telephone markets. The crystal and compensation design is discussed to provide the background for a review of the manufacturing issues encountered. The authors describe several of the issues encountered in the manufacturing process and relate how these were addressed. Millions of Saber oscillators have been manufactured and it is still in volume production

Keywords

compensation; crystal oscillators; frequency synthesizers; hybrid integrated circuits; integrated circuit manufacture; thick film circuits; Saber oscillator; cellular telephone; hybrid TCXO manufacturing; land mobile telephone; manufacturing process; reference oscillator; synthesizers; temperature-compensated crystal oscillator; Assembly; Capacitors; Circuits; Costs; Frequency; Manufacturing processes; Oscillators; Packaging; Synthesizers; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control Symposium, 1993. 47th., Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0905-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FREQ.1993.367462

Filename

367462