[time-nuts] pulling oscillators

[Said Jackson]

Hi Don,

I wrote a design idea about designing that circuit in EDN in 2003.

Search google for "Jackson Vcxo"

Not that hard to do if you can add a number of passive components to your pcb.

Bye,
Said

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On Mar 5, 2011, at 1:06, "Don Latham" <djl at montana.com> wrote:

> Hello all:
> I've developed a need for pulling crystal oscillators built in to pll
> circuits. These are cmos, and have the common style oscillator circuit
> built in. The crystal is across an inverter in the chip, and there is a
> small cap between each end of the crystal and ground.
> The chips are pll's in radio transceivers, early at that.
> I could carefully remove the crystals and caps, simply driving the
> non-inverting input on the chip with the reference, but I would rather
> simply tack on a very small cap and "pull" the crystal oscillator with an
> external reference signal of the right frequency.
> Anyone out there tried this?
> Thanks
> Don
> 
> 
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