Cheaper and better. With such succinct words of praise, a product is sure to sell itself. However, the practical application wasn’t the central concern when Dr Massoud Tohidian was designing his extremely small, accurate and energy-efficient oscillator. In his own words: Our primary focus was on developing a new type of circuit. Tohidian’s oscillator comes in two versions: one that’s extremely small with low phase noise and low energy usage, and another that’s the same size as an LC oscillator, but a lot more accurate …