Same here. No problem at all with them, with PICs.

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There's no particular brand of oscillator I prefer, but the package style is important when space is at a premium. Recently I cobbled together an adapter that lets me use an oscillator intended for surface-mount (see datasheet attached). The resulting assembly is much smaller than a can -- about the width of a DIP IC, and considerably shorter.

I found it easier to flip the oscillator upside down to expose the soldering surface. Viewed in this way, the pads are numbered clockwise. Upside down also allowed me to avoid shorts between the bypass cap and the oscillator's metal lid, which is grounded.

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What is the pin spacing on that assembly? It looks tiny.

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It's pretty small, alright. The pin spacing is .1". Here's a photo using some .1" protoboard as a backdrop, and shaded to show the mounting footprint. Except for not being upside down, the oscillator is positioned as in my previous post -- ie; the overall footprint is in "landscape" orientation, and the oscillator is rotated portrait-wise.

Although my adapter is implemented as a removable daughterboard, the same wiring technique could mount the oscillator directly to the main board.

The shot below shows the oscillator in its natural (SMD) habitat. If you're doing a custom PCB (not protoboard) then this is the way to go. On this board the plate-through holes are on a .1" grid, and the SOIC IC location is .050" lead pitch. For scale I put a rectangular can-type oscillator on the left, with its narrow dimension visible.

It's worth mentioning that suppliers have less and less incentive to stock through-hole parts nowadays. So, as time goes by, you're more and more likely to find your favorite frequency only available in SMD.

-- Jeff

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I've used a similar oscillator here, soldered directly on 100 mil grid that was intended for expansion connector:

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This is a an excellent idea. I've got a few SMD ones lying around which I thought about throwing away as most of the stuff I do is thru-hole. I can now try this and see what happens .

Here's a screen shot of my 65C02v2 project using a 25MHz crystal oscillator being divided down to 12.5MHz using a 74AC74 D-type flip flop. The measurement was taken from the PHI2 (pin 37) of the W65C02S. Lookin' good . BDD do you use a flip flop with SMD cans?

You're using IO pins of the FPGA to supply power to the oscillator? I love it!!

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I have not used an SMD can in any of my builds.

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