Hi Merrick, Thanks for the answer. I have few more doubts which I hope you can clear. The negative resistance is due to crystal oscillator. If so why do I need to replace crystal with current source. How will oscillations occur and also different impedance as crystal offers at different frequencies when I replace crystal with current source? I am modelling crystal as a parallel resonant circuit in Hspice. Thanks in advance, Regards, Partha! --- "Moeller, Merrick" <mmoeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Place a unit current source in place of your > crystal, Include a parallel cap to account for Co. > Wideband AC simulation. Plot Real[Z],you should see > Neg R at your > frequency of intrest. If you are working with 3rd OT > you will see a crossing point prior to your > frequency. > > Hope that helps. If you have any questions I should > be > able to help. > > Merrick M. Moeller > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Parthasarathy Sampath > [mailto:parthsv@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:48 PM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: analogcmos_vlsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] Negative Resistance of Crystal > Oscillators > > > > Hi all, > I need to make certain measurements on crystal > oscillator ckt. The closed loop has a crystal > oscillator with Invertor as feedback to provide 360 > deg phase shift. > One measurement is to measure Negative resistance > in open loop simulation. > Is it possible to measure negative resistance of > the > oscillator in open loop. If so how will I have to > proceed? > > Thanks in advance > > Regards, > Partha! > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in > the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go > to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the > Subject field > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are > viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu