Good advice, unfortunately too late for me.Decoupling caps and short wires are essential to prevent lost hairs. Grey Haired engineers do this without thinking.
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Good advice, unfortunately too late for me.Decoupling caps and short wires are essential to prevent lost hairs. Grey Haired engineers do this without thinking.
I've used oscillators when I've required the performance.
But for cost, a plain 10Mhz crystal can be had for US$ 0.17 plus $0.02 for a pair of NPO caps. Compared to US$0.59 for a plain XO oscillator.
Prices in 1,000 quantities from DigiKey.
Of course if one requires an OCXO or other high stability unit, prices quadruple.
My former C-MAC sister plant used to make high end XO's.Having worked in a company that made crystal oscillators, I don't understand why so few packaged oscillators are used. It is so much easier to buy an oscillator that just works. The only additional component is a decoupling capacitor, which will almost always be there anyway. There is no worry about load capacitance or how the output loading will affect the frequency.