The designers of a self-clocked offset cancellation technique for comparators within a relaxation oscillator share their findings and explain why the resulting improvements in frequency drift and ...

CMOS relaxation oscillators have emerged as a pivotal technology in modern integrated circuits, offering a balance between low power consumption and simplicity of design. These oscillators utilise the ...

Designers seeking a quick and easy frequency source often use a relaxation oscillator (Fig. 1) based on digital gates such as the 74HC14 inverter with hysteresis. The oscillator is also useful in ...

Energy harvesting is the art of extracting useful power from energy sources normally deemed too weak, too dilute, or too impractical to be usable. I have already presented an example of such a ...