Well, basically the temperature of a wrist watch is very
constant at around 90F. That and a table lookup that gives
an adjustment for number of cycles per tick vs temperature.
All quartz watches since about 1990 are microprocessor based,
and have a table lookup. They can only be regulated using
a special computer interface provided by the manufacturer.
-Chuck Harris
Neville Michie wrote:
Does anyone know about what technology is used in Swiss watches to get much
better performance from
their xtals than you might expect?
I assumed that they had look up lists to insert extra counts to compensate for
ambient variations,
but I have never heard any details.
cheers,
Neville Michie
On 30/08/2012, at 1:45 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
On 8/27/2012 11:45 PM, WB6BNQ wrote:
A microprocessor controlled XO is a non oven crystal oscillator system that has
additional computational control providing a bit more than just mere passive
temperature compensation. The additional computational capability deals with
having coefficients of that particular oscillator's behavior pre coded to
compensate for the nonlinear behavior over a given temperature rang
It doesn't use coefficients. It has a look up table of frequency vs
temperature.
A microprocessor controlled XO system allows for using cheap crystals with
minimum processing time and costs. Because of limited storage space there is no
No it doesn't use a cheap crystal. It uses a *special* SC cut crystal.
This crystal could very easily cost more than an OCXO crystal.
way for the system to have enough data to even try to compete with the quality
of
a decent OCXO. Beyond its initial calibration setup, it has no way of keeping
it
tied to a known reference, like the Thunderbolt is doing.
Bill....WB6BNQ
An MCXO is a very good, but expensive TCXO. Only temperature, not aging is
corrected.
It has nothing to do with "smart clocks".
Rick Karlquist N6RK
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