Hi all, I am measuring a Random jitter of parallel resonant crystal clock on a tablet board. I plotted histogram and found it to be in bell shape i.e. Gaussian distribution. But when i add a series resistor to reduce the drive current to crystal, i find that the histogram shape changes to bi-modal i.e. the one which we get when we have both Random jitter and Deterministic jitter. I am unable to understand the crystal clock jitter behavior after adding drive control resistor. I dont see any changes in waveform shape when i measure it in oscilloscope, neither the crystal is having any trouble in starting up. Regards Vinod A H ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu