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E7H07

PRACTICAL CIRCUITS · Oscillators and signal sources: types of oscillators; synthesizers and phase-locked loops; direct digital synthesizers; stabilizing thermal drift; microphonics; high-accuracy oscillators

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How can an oscillator's microphonic responses be reduced?

  1. AUse NP0 capacitors
  2. BReduce noise on the oscillator's power supply
  3. CIncrease the gain
  4. DMechanically isolate the oscillator circuitry from its enclosure
Why Microphonics are frequency or amplitude variations caused by mechanical vibration or shock reaching the oscillator, where movement of components, leads, or the tuned circuit slightly changes capacitance or inductance. The cure is mechanical, not electrical: shock-mount or isolate the oscillator board from the chassis and enclosure, keep leads short and rigid, and secure components so nothing can vibrate. Potting or clamping critical parts works on the same principle.
Watch out NP0 (C0G) capacitors are the standard fix for thermal drift, since they have near-zero temperature coefficient, but they do nothing about vibration; cleaning up power supply noise reduces hum and phase noise, not microphonics.
Microphonic = mechanical. A mechanical problem needs a mechanical fix: isolate and mount rigidly.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of E7H

  1. E7H01 What are three common oscillator circuits?
  2. E7H02 What is a microphonic?
  3. E7H03 What is a phase-locked loop?
  4. E7H04 How is positive feedback supplied in a Colpitts oscillator?
  5. E7H05 How is positive feedback supplied in a Pierce oscillator?
  6. E7H06 Which of these functions can be performed by a phase-locked loop?
  7. E7H07 How can an oscillator's microphonic responses be reduced?
  8. E7H08 Which of the following components can be used to reduce thermal drift in crystal oscillators?
  9. E7H09 What type of frequency synthesizer circuit uses a phase accumulator, lookup table, digital-to-analog converte…
  10. E7H10 What information is contained in the lookup table of a direct digital synthesizer (DDS)?
  11. E7H11 What are the major spectral impurity components of direct digital synthesizers?
  12. E7H12 Which of the following ensures that a crystal oscillator operates on the frequency specified by the crystal m…
  13. E7H13 Which of the following is a technique for providing highly accurate and stable oscillators needed for microwa…
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