14 July 2023

Motorola K1516AA K1516AE TCXO pinout

I found a canned oscillator hanging around my desk. It is a TCXO or even VC-TCXO marked Motorola K1516AE  1813-0535 10000000 Hz. No pinout. I haven't found a datasheet online, or I used the wrong search keywords.

On the other hand with some keywords I get directed to an eBay item of a replacement board for an HP spectrum analyzer, the HP 8562A. Usually old manuals show the schematic diagram and luckily the whole PDF is available on Keysight website. It is 462 pages long with only block diagrams. But I was VERY lucky since at page 6-25 (217 in the PDF), figure 6-7, in a "manual change" section the oscillator diagram is shown in clear! And the K1516AA TCXO pinout is there!

 

Page 6-25 of HP 8562A spectrum analyzer manual, power supply, TCXO and TTL level generator.
Page 6-25, power supply, TCXO and TTL level generator.

Zooming in for improved readability (click on the picture for a larger version):

Zoom on the schematic depicting the TCXO part
Zoom on the TCXO part.

I have a K1516AE but I think the pinout shown for K1516AA will not be too far away.