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Re: [AVR-Chat] External oscillator for the Tiny13.

2005-07-05 by erikc

Alexandre Guimaraes wrote:
> Hi, Dave
> 
> Thanks a lot for the fast answer...
> 
> http://www.qrpp-i.com/elmer001/elmer001-e.htm
> 
> That one looks really nice and is as simple as it can get... I do have some 
> questions about it... But I will breadboard it tomorrow to see...
> 
> It generates a sine wave, do you thing the Tiny13 would be happy with it ? 
> Do you thing the level of the signal would be enough for driving the MCU ?

Add a transistor invertor at the output of the oscillator.  A 10K base 
resistor and a 1K collector resistor should work nicely.  It will put 
out a decent approximation to a square wave.

> Could it work with a resonator ? The Internal circuit would have the same 
> configuration as the crystal and the 100pf cap's, wouldn't it ?

I dunno.  Try it and see.

> Best regards,
> Alexandre Guimaraes
> 


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erikc

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