(iTers News) - SiTime Corporation sees new market opportunities in the proliferation of IoT and wearable devices. The  analog semiconductor chip maker has unveiled a 32kHz MEMS TCXO, temperature compensated oscillator in what the chip maker said is the smallest form  factor and the thriftiest MEMS oscillator.

With its tiny footprint and ultra-low power consumption, the SiT1552 MEMS TCXO not only extend the battery life of wearable electronics and Internet of Things, or IoT but also leaves more space for the integration of other components  

“The markets for wearables and IoT are growing at a rapid pace. With this growth comes a need for customized devices that enable new features and higher performance,” said Marwan Boustany, Senior Analyst for MEMS & Sensors at IHS. “SiTime is a market share leader in the MEMS timing market and these advanced, 32 kHz MEMS TCXOs further support their market position.”

“By using its game-changing TempFlat MEMSTM and analog technology, SiTime has once again shattered the limitations of quartz. The SiT1552 MEMS TCXO is 20% of the size and consumes 50% of the power of comparable quartz devices,” said Piyush Sevalia, executive vice president of marketing at SiTime. “Our MEMS enable new system architectures that offer higher performance, small size and longer battery life. With another industry first, we continue to revolutionize the timing industry with our breakthrough MEMS solutions.”

The SiT1552 comes in a 1.5 x 0.8 mm chip scale package, or CSP. The SiT1552 MEMS TCXO can perform various functions in a system such as reference for real time clock (RTC), sleep clock for connectivity for bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, WiFi, and heartbeat clock for battery supervisory function

Compared to a quartz TCXO, the SiT1552 MEMS TCXO is 20% of the size and is available in a 1.5 x 0.8mm CSP, consuming 50% less power, or less than 1 micro-amp. It is 45% thinner  with a height of 0.55 mm. It boasts 10 times faster startup, with a startup time of 0.3 milliseconds.  It is  30 times more resistant to shocks, too, while boasting 15 times higher reliability, at 500 million hours MTBF

It sports ±5 PPM frequency stability that enables 2 to 3 times longer battery life compared to a 180 PPM quartz resonator.On top of that, it comes embedded with NanoDriveTM, a programmable, low swing output that minimizes power and directly interfaces to the oscillator / RTC circuit in the downstream processor or PMIC. It operates at  voltage of 1.5 to 3.63V, making it ideal for products that use a coin-cell or super-cap battery backup

Devices in the 1508 CSP are available in production now.