Components & Connectors

Announcing that the SiT8008 low power MEMS oscillator can now operate between 1.62 and 3.63V, SiTime says the enhanced device can accelerates time to revenue, while simplifying inventory management for industrial and medical electronics development.

In addition to the expanded voltage range, the popular SiT8008 MEMS oscillator also includes additional programmable features such as frequency and drive strength programmability. The SiT8008 offers millions of possible configurations, adds SiTime. For example, industrial and medical applications such as factory automation, seismic sensing, and data acquisition all use many clock sources in a single system. These applications can benefit from its programmable features.

The MEMS oscillator is available from Digi-Key with short lead times. “Digi-Key is excited to offer additional value to our customers with custom programmed MEMS timing solutions from SiTime,” said David Stein, vice president of global supplier management at Digi-Key Electronics. “Customers can now order a continuous voltage option of the popular . . . SiT8008, programmed and [shipped] in as little as 48 hours,” he continued. The continuous voltage feature reduces qualification requirements across a customer’s various applications, enabling faster time-to-market, added Stein.

“Traditional oscillators are usually configured for specific frequencies and operation at one of 1.8, 2.5, or 3.3V voltages. Each configuration then requires a separate component qualification and will need to be stocked in inventory,” explained Piyush Sevalia, executive vice president of marketing at SiTime. “On the other hand . . . with the SiT8008 . . . if a customer uses multiple oscillator configurations, only one component qualification is required, reducing the time burden on valuable engineering resources. The SiT8008’s ability to operate at any voltage between 1.62V and 3.63V further simplifies system design – a customer can choose the voltage rail already available in the system rather than design a new one, which can also reduce component count.”

Along with continuous voltage operation, the SiT8008 also offers industry-leading resilience and reliability, a wide programmable frequency range with six decimals of accuracy, low power consumption, small package size, and short lead times, said SiTime.

Parts are available for sampling and in low-volume production quantities from Digi-Key now.

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BlueSky technology has been integrated into Microchip’s SyncServer S600 series time server to defend against GPS jamming and spoofing.

Mission-critical networks and essential enterprise infrastructure maintains reliable operation by continuously receiving accurate timing information from network time servers. These servers however can be vulnerable to cybersecurity threats such as global positioning system (GPS) jamming and spoofing.

Microchip addresses this by integrating BlueSky technology signal-anomaly detection software into SyncServer S600 series network time server and instruments.

The company believes it is the first to fully integrate GPS jamming and spoofing detection and protection, in combination with local radio frequency (RF) data logging and analysis, inside a time server. The SyncServer S600 series Stratum 1 instrument, with BlueSky intelligent jamming and spoofing detectors, continuously monitor local GPS constellation health and examine GPS and local RF signal integrity to assure validity.

If an anomaly is detected, an alarm is sent. If necessary, the SyncServer instrument can be shifted to alternative time sources or an internal oscillator to protect ongoing timing outputs while ensuring only minimal, predictable timing degradation to vital network and business operations. Typical applications range from banking and stock trading to electric utilities and aerospace and defence.

The SyncServer BlueSky technology provides continuous detection and protection against GPS jamming and spoofing. It includes a comprehensive suite of logging, charting and measuring tools to characterise local GPS satellite signals as well as local RF events over time. This can help enable correlating, troubleshooting, identifying and correcting local anomalies, some of which may be related to consumer electronics, or nearby RF signal broadcasts.

Microchip also offers the option of the SyncServer v4.1 software release with features found in Microchip’s proven BlueSky GNSS Firewall solution for third-party GPS receivers and critical infrastructure.

Microchip Technology provides smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. It also provides development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company has over 120,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defence, communications and computing markets.

The company is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, USA. In addition to its product portfolio, Microchip offers technical support.

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