A ± 1.55ppm Stable FBAR Reference Clock with Oven-Controlled Temperature Compensation

We present an oven-controlled FBAR oscillator that achieves a frequency stability of +/-1.55ppm from -5°C to 85°C. The highly integrated system includes a 0.64mm2 FBAR chip with integrated heater and sensor resistors and a 3 mm2 CMOS chip with the control electronics. The oscillator achieves an Allen deviation of 4ppb enabled by a temperature-to-digital converter (TDC) with a 150uK resolution. It corresponds to a 1.68JK2 FOM. The heater consumes a power of 14mW at -5°C and the oscillator consumes only 0.25mW. The ovenized oscillator meets the stringent frequency stability requirements (2 ppm) of GPS applications.

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