miller capacitance allows you to take a cap across 2 nodes and change it to buffer caps on input and output operational transconductance amps can operate at very high freqs, so wheee oscillators! mention of the wheatstone bridge problem with oscillators is maintinging stability under many different environmental conditions classical oscillators pendulum arm is rigid, does not flex, does not stretch escapement mechanism at top is tuned to length of pendulum for electrical, want to put poles just to the left of the y axis and add energy to maintain that Af(s) = A(s)/(1+A(s)B(s)) a zero on bottom yields an oscillator A(jw)B(jw) = L(jw) => 1-L(jw) = 0 general form of classical oscillator: opamp with NI input grounded I input, ground, and output connected by a delta circuit with impedances Z1 between G and I, Z2 between G and O, and Z3 between I and O impedances set freq colpitts osc ends up with 2 caps and 1 inductor