Yeah I did. Nothing showed. Circuit works. At 12:54 PM 6/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: Ernie Murphy >To: >Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 12:10 PM >Subject: Re: Osc cap return > > >> Remember small signal analysis? Power rails are both ground. What do you >> think the impedance of the power supply decoupling cap is at 4 MHz? > > >Yes I do, Perhaps you better make such a measurement, at fundamental and >harmonics through 1GHz, and consider lead lengths and trace impedance. >VCC is always some impedance away from GND, and it may be quite significant. >That osc current through the caps needs to return to the chip's ground, and >it will, if it has to run all over your system, and radiate on all your >attached cables to do so. > >