Jim P wrote:
>The simplistic approach of utilizing a single 'inverter'
>stage to be used as a crystal oscillator has always
>been bad design practice in the past and is always
>fraught with it's own set of perils.
.........
>
>I don't know what MChip (or others) actually has
>fabricated on the die as an 'oscillator' stage but it
>probably isn't a well designed analog 'oscillator'
>stage with suitable feedback or biasing.
>
>The moral of the story: It's "potluck" with the
>onboard oscillator and an external crystal all of
>unknown specification.
>

OK, I hear what you are saying about the single inverter stage
oscillator. OTOH, there are how many BILLIONS of these things
out there? Can they really be so fragile that simply changing trace
width like Harold did is gonna have such a great effect?

Cheers,
- Dan Michaels
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