Favourite crystal in the automotive industry

The mini SMD crystal in a 3.2 x 2.5 mm ceramic housing and available in a frequency range of 12 to 41 MHz has now become the automotive industry’s favourite crystal thanks to drastically reduced prices. The mini SMD crystal, produced in clean rooms within a temperature range of 0/+50 to -55/+125°C, has a ceramic housing with a welded Kovar lid that can be earthed via two pins, which in turn helps to drastically improve the crystal’s EMC performance. The crystal’s excellent shock and vibration resistance, very low prices, and multitude of uses have all helped to make it the automotive industry’s favourite crystal. Naturally, it can also be used in any other kind of application requiring a very small and low-cost mini SMD quartz crystal generator.

High-precision frequency tolerances of +-5 ppm and above are possible. In addition, the service catalogue of PETERMANN-TECHNIK’s specialists offers application analyses, circuit analyses, circuit development, circuit simulations and design-in support for technical value-added.