> You MIGHT be better with a discrete oscillator, feeding both circuits.  A
> simple 3 gate HC14 osc can drive a ton, since you aren't needing to tap into
> the xtal nodes to do it.

Kill two birds with one stone and use a (74HC)4060 which has the
oscillator amp built in (equivalent to PIC HS mode). You get the
oscillator and the divider chain to get clock sources for both
chips.

Steve.


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