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Are there any commercially available crystals in the sub 32 kHz range?
I'm looking for a low power clocking solution and it looks like crystals bottom out at 32 kHz. Are there any low power (nA) solutions (crystals/ceramic resonators/custom transistor oscillator ...
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Why does a faster clock require more power?
If you overclock a microcontroller, it gets hot.
If you overclock a microcontroller, it needs more voltage.
In some abstract way it makes sense: it is doing more computation, so it needs more energy ...
