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How to test a crystal resonator in board?

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I have 2 quartz crystal resonators in my pcb board: 32.768 kHz & 20 MHz. They are connected to a Freescale MC12311 transceiver IC, which has an HCS08 micro-controller embedded in it. I want to test if these crystals are working properly or not.

Available tools: Oscilloscope, Frequency-Meter (Digital Counter), Digital Multimeter.

How should I use these tools to test the crystals in board?

  • Note: The capacitive load-effect of probes should probably be considered. If not, the measurement would not be accurate, or even worse, the crystals would not work at all.

Edit1: I used both the oscilloscope and the frequency-meter (with x10 probes), but unfortunately there was nothing monitored at all.


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