Texas Instruments has removed the need for external timing crystals by developing a technique for building high-grade thin film piezoelectric bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators within the metallisation of silicon chips, on a CMOS-compatible process that can be delivered in a standard, or even thin, QFN package. The crucial piezo film is sandwiched between two ...

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