The Crystal-less low power oscillator addresses a variety of applications that include low power consumer and professional applications that require crystal-less oscillators to minimize the number of external components while permitting logic operation and secured verification of incoming clocks. These applications typically operate under significant noise environments of large digital media and data processing chips.
Crystal-less Low Power Oscillator on TSMC CLN12FFC
Overview
Key Features
- Crystal-less oscillator
- Uses standard CMOS transistors
- Accuracy within +/-35% untrimmed, +/-8% post-trim
- Under 50uA active power
- Quick start/stop capability
- Requires no additional on-chip components, minimizing power consumption
Block Diagram

Technical Specifications
Foundry, Node
TSMC CLN12FFC
TSMC
Pre-Silicon:
12nm