Crystal design for stm32f103

[gbip]

We need to find a crystal for the microcontroller and the attached capacitance.

More information can be found in this application note.

You can find the micro-controller characteristics here :

page 105 of the cortex m4 datasheet

[goowza]

The ECS-80-18-5PX (datasheet : csm-7x.pdf) is ok.

• The minimal gain margin needed to start the oscillation is > 5 :

(The gm value can be found in the STM32F103 datasheet : cd00161566.pdf and all the other values come from the crystal datasheet)

• We can now calculate the external capacitors values :

• We might want to check the power dissipated by the crystal aka the drive level. However, in order to do so we will have to measure the current going through the crystal without an external resistance and verify that we don't exceed 500 uW.
  If the power dissipated is superior to 500 uW, we will have to add a resistance which value shall be given by :
  

/!\ If we add this resistance, we will have to recalculate the gain margin taking Rext into account (by adding it to the value of ESR)

[gbip]

Thanks a lot @goowza for your answer, I checked your calculations and everything is correct !

I will add this crystal to the "to buy" list so that we can test it as soon as possible (see #11) ! 😄

Are you willing to add your comment to the documentation so that people can reuse your work if they need to find an other crystal ? I think that it should go over this section of the documentation (feel free to add a new entry for crystals).
@dotsumae is this ok for you ?

[gbip]

I have troubles finding this crystal on online retailers (such as farnell or rs-components), where can we buy it ?

[goowza]

Yes i'll do that :)
I can't find it either, but this one has almost the same caracteristics (the only differences are the size and the ESR value which is 80 ohms instead of 60 ohms). The gain margin value is changed but is equal to 42,4 so that's still > 5.

[gbip]

Nice, thanks !