Hello Douglas,

Often cheaper to multiply up than buy an expensive 5th overtone that
was difficult to pull onto frequency and fussy to set up.


And these special cuts can indeed be fussy. They can also be a
procurement nightmare.

The exception would be current and size saving for some portables.


Even then it could be done. Besides the discrete solution there are
blazingly fast logic inverters such as the ALVC series. These are
usually under 20 cents and come in the super tiny TSSOP format. Now I
just wish they had unbuffered versions to do the oscillator part with.
If a 74HCU04 is needed for other jobs on the board it could run the
oscillator but for any reasonable speed these require more than 4V.

Regards, Joerg

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