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Crystal oscillator powered by LDO
May 15th, 2014, 3:38am
 
Hi,

I am working on a Pierce type parallel resonant crystal oscillator. I am able to see the oscillations when I apply an ideal power supply. But when the supply is from an LDO, the oscillation buildup is too slow for the oscillations to be recognizable. The supply level, ramp rate are all similar. I don't see any difference in the amplifier negative resistance or the current output from the supply. Anybody has any idea of the possible cause?
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Re: Crystal oscillator powered by LDO
Reply #1 - May 15th, 2014, 6:58am
 
What is the Frequency of oscillation.
Are you aware that you need to add an initial condition ic=(some current) in the Lm (inductor) model of the crystal, else your crystal will not start.

If it is MHz frequency try making ic=5uA. If it is kHz frequency make ic=500nA and give it a try.

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Reply #2 - May 15th, 2014, 9:47pm
 
Thanks for the reply. The frequency of oscillation is 8 MHz. I was not aware of setting an initial current. But I am able to start the oscillations when I simply ramp up the ideal supply from 0. So is this something relevant only when I use an LDO instead of an ideal supply?
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Reply #3 - May 16th, 2014, 10:08am
 
The LRC model of the crystal in simulation is only ideal. There are no inherent noise in the crystal model in simulation to start and let the oscillations grow.

Therefore, the simulation needs an initial condition of some current in Lm.

There are other ways to start, but usually the simplistic approach is the use of initial condition.

Does your LDO have a decoupling capacitor that is large. It could be the ramp up is slightly longer such that the transient on LDO is unable to start the oscillation, contrary to the ideal supply.

Your other test is: use ideal supply as DC (don't ramp-up set DC voltage only by using VDC) then use initial condition current ic=xxx check what is the minimum you need to let the oscillations grow in simulation. May be 1uA or 5uA I don't know.
Remember if you give too large, then the amplitudes will clip therefore give lower values as explained before. If you can succeed in starting with some initial condition for a true ideal DC supply (with no ramp), then the same condition should be used for the case of LDO and your crystal oscillator should start with no problems.

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Re: Crystal oscillator powered by LDO
Reply #4 - May 16th, 2014, 1:49pm
 
ic-engr has good advice, also look on the site here (search time) because I answered a bunch of questions on this a while back.

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Reply #5 - May 18th, 2014, 10:39pm
 
Thank you very much for all the inputs!
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