At 07:55 PM 10/20/99 -0700, Brian wrote:
>I have seen some low cost programmable oscillators from Epson in
>DigiKey's catalog.  The SG-8002 is programmable from 1-125MHz with 50ppm
>stability.  They are under $4.00 each.  I thought that it would be good
>to keep a few around for prototyping when I need an oddball fequency and
>don't want to order a crystal and wait for it.  Anyone have any
>experience with these?  Is there anything special needed to program
>them?

By the way, Marlin P. Jones (http://www.mpja.com/) has crystal oscillators
for $1.00 apiece. Why use a resonator?


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