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Crystals Oscillators and Usage

So I'm playing with a AVR PiC, the ATMEGA32. And its needs 16mhz crystal hooked to it like so:

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Note; I used a Cap and Inductor pair for the crystal symbol.

I am just wondering what is the role of the capacitors? Can I use 1uf caps instead and still get 16Mhz?

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Zv_oDD
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to it like so:

Hi, Rather than just tell you I would like to refer you here:

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have fun, Tom

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Tom Biasi

to it like so:

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http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/00826a.pdf
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John Fields

Tom, that's a great tutorial. Short and sweet, yet informative. Thanks for that.

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Chiron

You're welcome.

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Tom Biasi

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