For customers designing Mircochip (Former Atmel)
We are pleased to introduce you to our crystal unit
- Items to Confirm (designing of oscillation circuit)
- Selection Guidance for crystal unit
- Crystal Products Lineup
- Oscillation Circuit and Selection Guidance of Crystal Unit.
- Precautions for designing of PCB Board
Crystal Recommendations for Mircochip (Former Atmel) "AVR RF chips".
> Clock solution recommendations for Mircochip (Former Atmel) AVR RF chips
In realizing low power consumption RF designs, the following factors should be taken into consideration.
- Oscillation start-up time
- Frequency tuning
- Lower BER(Bit Error Rate) over operating temperature
No. | Oscillation Circuit Factor | 2.4 GHz |
< AT crystal unit spec.> | ||
1 | Quick oscillation start-up time *High oscillation allowance *Boost inverter |
*Lower ESR(R1) *High drive level |
2 | Easy frequency control *inner frequency tuning capacitor |
*proper frequency sensitivity *low parameters' variation |
3 | Lower BER *temperature compensation |
*High frequency stability |
MHz Crystal equivalent circuit | |
Rapid Oscillation start-up time → Lower ESR (R1) , Higher C1 → Higher drive level |
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Suitable Frequency
Tuning → Lower parameters variation(C0,C1,L1,ESR) |
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Suitable Frequency Tuning → Proper Sensitivity (CL,C0) |
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Higher Frequency Stability → Stable fSTA |
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QMEMS Technology |
Clock solution recommendations for Mircochip (Former Atmel) AVR RF chips
Worldwide | ATmega256RFR2 ATmega128RFA1 |
AT86RF233 AT86RF231 |
AT86RF212B AT86RF212 |
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US | Europe | Japan | Asia | |||
ZigBee IEEE802.15.4 |
2400 to 2483.5 MHz | 700/800/900 MHz | ||||
Recommendable Clock Devices |
FA-20H 16MHz,9pF |
Notes: Above recommendations are based on actual evaluation results and intended to support users in picking the right components. As the actual board layout and choice of external components influences the best suitable crystal load capacitance, We does not assume any responsibility and grant warranty for above recommendations. Users design must be verified and decided by own and individual evaluation.
Please refer to Mircochip (Former Atmel) AVR RF chips manual for designing.
*ZigBee is a registered trademark of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
Items to Confirm (designing of oscillation circuit)
Please note: to design oscillation circuit, you need to confirm the electronic characteristics as follows:
Oscillation allowance and Negative resistance (-R):
You need to confirm oscillation capability.
We recommend the condition: (-R) / ESR > 5
* -R: Negative resistance, ESR: Equivalent Series Resistance
Please refer to our web site:
https://www5.epsondevice.com/cn/information/precaution/design.html
Support information > Precautions in Designing oscillation circuits > 2. Allowance for oscillation
Drive Level:
You need to confirm if oscillation is stable, and if the drive level is within the specification.
Please refer to our web site:
https://www5.epsondevice.com/cn/information/precaution/design.html
Support information > Precautions in Designing oscillation circuits > 1. Drive level
Load Capacitance:
Load capacitance affects frequency stability, oscillation allowance, negative resistance, and start-up time of oscillation.
In addition the load capacitance is determinative factor of crystal unit's load capacitance (CL value) directly.
Please refer to our web site:
https://www5.epsondevice.com/cn/information/precaution/design.html
Support information > Precautions in Designing oscillation circuits > 3. Load capacitance
* frequency stability: frequency deviation out of circuit conditions.
Selection Guidance for crystal unit
When Customer selects crystal unit, lload capacitance (CL value) is an important factor of the selection.
For instance, crystal with small CL(7.0 pF) makes larger oscillation allowance, smaller current consumption and worse frequency stability, like below table.
Oppositely, crystal with large CL(12.5 pF) makes smaller oscillation allowance, larger current consumption and better frequency stability.
Please select it in consideration of these characteristics.
Epson Crystal Product Lineup
Product | Size [mm] | Applications | Images |
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FA-20H |
2.5×2.0×0.55t | -Mobile phone,Bluetooth,W-LAN -ISM band,Clock for MPU |
Oscillation Circuit and Selection Guidance of Crystal Unit for AVR RF chips
Pin number of XTAL1/XTAL2
XTAL1 | XTAL2 | |
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ATmega256RFR2 | 57 | 56 |
ATmega128RFA1 | 57 | 56 |
AT86RF23x, 212/212B | 26 | 25 |
Internal trimming capacitors of AVR RF chips (Default)
Ctrim (XTAL_TRIM) | 0 | pF |
IC name |
product name |
Freq. [Hz] |
CL *1 [pF] |
f_tol *2 [ppm] |
Product Code*3 |
External parts *4 | Package size[mm] WxDxH |
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Cg [pF] |
Cd [pF] |
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ATmega256RFR2 | FA-20H | 16M | 9.0 | 10 | Q24FA20H00352** | 12 | 12 | 2.5x2.0x0.55 |
ATmega128RFA1 | ||||||||
AT86RF233 | 20 | Q24FA20H00053** | 12 | 12 | ||||
AT86RF231 | ||||||||
AT86RF212B | ||||||||
AT86RF212 |
Notes:*
- Load capacitance.
- Frequency tolerance (standard)
- Two digits of the product code is packing specification, please refer here for the detail.
- Above recommendations are based on actual evaluation results and intended to support
users in picking the right components. And the results are only according to the sample
set that received from our customers, so it is not including the dispersion trend of IC
and the external parts.
As the actual board layout and choice of external components influences the best suitable crystal load capacitance, We do not assume any responsibility and grant warranty for above recommendations. Users design must be verified and decided by own and individual evaluation.