I think crystals offer the best value when considering accuracy, size, and power consumption - certainly for general applications. If long term accuracy is required then sync into the Rugby clock. For ultra high stability you need to get exotic.
Trimmed silicon based oscillators are the ones to watch (sorry no pun intended!) they seem to be getting better every year and will displace resonators and cheap crystals.
I think crystals offer the best value when considering accuracy, size, and power consumption - certainly for general applications. If long term accuracy is required then sync into the Rugby clock. For ultra high stability you need to get exotic.
Trimmed silicon based oscillators are the ones to watch (sorry no pun intended!) they seem to be getting better every year and will displace resonators and cheap crystals.
I agree with your opinion. so far there is a new non-crystal silicon oscillator available which can be looked as a significant technical innovation. Because of the great improvement of the vibration functionality, the frequency difference resulted from the variation of operating temperature range, initiation frequency accuracy, voltage supply and output load can be compensated. Therefore it can be used in many customer electronic products. The non-crystal silicon oscillator is an emerging technique, let's wait and see how it goes.
