Sand 9 unveils TM651 MEMS timing product for military applications

Sand 9 has introduced TM651, the first piezoelectric micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) timing product for communications infrastructure, industrial and military applications.

The TM651 is a voltage controlled and temperature compensated MEMS oscillator designed to ensures high reliability throughout product life cycle.

Sand 9 CEO Vince Graziani said the TM651 offers greater precision and higher reliability which is critically important for large communications infrastructure systems including data centre switches, Ethernet communications and point-to-point radios applications for which packet loss or loss of signal is simply not acceptable.

"These attributes are equally crucial for thousands of different high-value industrial and military applications," Graziani added.

Based on Sand 9’s patented Temperature Compensated MEMS Oscillator (TCMO) platform, the TM651 features highest-performance MEMS architecture and exceeds the performance of quartz in several ways.

Designed to provide exceptional activity dip suppression, superior shock and vibration immunity, and outstanding electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection, the extremely reliable timing source provides 100 times better electromechanical coupling over conventional electrostatic MEMS architectures.

The product also achieved stringent low-noise, high-stability and harsh environmental requirements for precision timing in communications infrastructure, industrial and military applications.

In addition to producing a significantly higher signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, the product supports far greater performance than any other MEMS solution.