Wes:

All of that exists on just a single chip these days, it is possible to have an
osc chip which is usable from 1Mhz-to-1Ghz and puts out an acceptable sine...

.... or so my son informs me.

I took his word for it... the world has began to pass me by :(

John

"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:04:13 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

Wes:

I had dropped the all important word "transistors" in reference to
"millions... billions". I never dreamed anyone could be mistaken that
someone was claiming that many osc's in a computer, but you never can
tell about the CB'ers--they might think so!

Here is a mess of stuff on clocks, osc's which are generally used in
digital equip these days (and this is stuff I am used to,
a decade old or better technology, probably two decades!):

A mess indeed.

... it should be apparent mr. pierce is not
here in (at least most) of this material:


Well, he's he

http://www.mtron.com/pdf/eng_notes.pdf

(See Figure 8 and associated text.)

http://www.statek.com/new/pdf/tn30.pdf

http://www.statek.com/new/pdf/tn31.pdf



Simple logic gate oscillator:
http://www.it.lth.se/digp/PDF_files/oscillators.pdf

Thanks for making my point! "A better oscillator using inverter gates
is given in Figure 2." (This is a Pierce.)


Design of op amp oscillators:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slyt164/slyt164.pdf

Does not apply. Earlier I said, "All sine wave oscillators, LC or
crystal, are basically the same circuit with the only variable being
the location of the rf common point."

These are not LC or crystal oscillators. The only place you might
find one of these in a modern radio is in the sidetone oscillator.


CMOS oscillator:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit...ASCIISCHEM_004

Tinker Toy

Clock divider:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit...s/clockdiv.txt

Not an oscillator. You too busy writing to actually look at your
references?

clock doubler:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit...ckdoubler.html

Op cit.

square wave to sine converter:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit...quare2sine.txt

Op cit.

pdf on digital oscillators:
http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/cours..._TTL_Logic.pdf

This is a college course?

Computer project, using 7404 as a clock:
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Jeremy.Jones/3d2/3d2project.htm

Clearly, you didn't read this one.