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However, European sources of quartz-based oscillatorsare becoming more limited, and these solutions are expensive, with a form factor and power consumption that becomes challenging when incorporating into highly integrated payloads. Current state-of-art oscillators based on microelectromechanical(MEMS) resonators display competitive phase noise and frequency stability performance compared to quartz-based solutions, but thereare no European or Canadian sources of such products. Important advantages of such MEMS resonators compared to quartz-based oscillatorcan be seen, where MEMS achieves performance in between the Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator (TCXO) and Oven ControlledCrystal Oscillators (OCXOs) but with the advantage of their extremely small form factor, low power consumption and integration capability with Silicon process. One more important aspect is that the MEMS fundamentalmode frequency can be much higher than that of aQuartz crystal, whereas cost reduction is expected at lower frequencies and better performance at higher frequencies.This activity will design, manufacture of an engineering model oscillator chip based on European microelectromechanical technology in the 10 and500 MHz frequency range. The performance shall be suitable for a range of application scenarios in telecom payloads. 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