It is quite possible to employ a single inverter to deliver the basis of a crystal oscillator and such a circuit appears in diagram below.
													
																	Crystal oscillator circuit using inverter. 
									
	
		
	
																	If you really need fast edges and the crystal frequency is low then a schmitt trigger can help. 
																	A common transistor based crystal oscillator will give you a sinusoidal output waveform. 
																	I d use one inverter to run the crystal a second just as a buffer then two with a little dc feedback around them to make the schmitt trigger. 
																	The inverter is biased into a linear amplifying mode by r1 and the crystal is linked amongst the input and the output of the circuit by means of tc1. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	The figure above shows implementation of a parallel resonant oscillator circuit. 
																	This circuit uses cd4007 or mc14007. 
																	And working with 2 inverter gate within ic1 and cangenerate. 
																	Load impedance across the crystal terminals 18 4 3. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	You can still do that with a 74hc04. 
																	One thing i didn t point out in video is to tie unused pins to gnd. 
																	This functions the popular pierce oscillator configuration. 
																	Circuit is how to make a crystal oscillator using a hex inverting schmitt trigger 74hc14. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	As circuit in figure 1 is simple oscillator that generate square wave that use crystal work together with two resistors instead of the rc networks circuit this circuit use the crystal of 1 10 mhz and the resistor from 1k to 4 7kohms that resistance both r1 and r2 must equal value. 
																	To control an electronic circuit. 
																	They generate the frequencies to be a base time. 
																	The circuit is designed to use the fundamental frequency of the crystal. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	Electrical equivalent circuit of a crystal the quantities c and l are determined by the mechanical characteristics of the crystal. 
																	The second inverter gate is wired as a buffer between the oscillator output and output load. 
																	Oscillator loop gain 19 4 4. 
																	For example sine wave triangular waveform and square wave. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	The 4k7 resistor provides the negative feedback for stability. 
																	1 crystal oscillator circuit using 74ls04. 
																	Circuit design characteristics 4 1. 
																	The reason that takes two inverters is that you need positive gain. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	The 74as04 inverter performs the 180 degree phase shift that a parallel oscillator requires. 
																	Reduced crystal voltage limits above 1 mhz 20 4 5. 
																	This is an astable multivibrator oscillator circuit using cmos inverter. 
																	Crystal s internal series resistancer 17 4 2. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	This circuit has operating frequency range of 10khz to 10mhz. 
																	Dc biasing of transistor and ic amplifier stages 21 4 6. 
																	Szza043 4 use of the cmos unbuffered inverter in oscillator circuits c0 r c l figure 2. 
																	The oscillators or frequency generators provide a waveform out in various forms. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	Crystal response to a step input13 4.