Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-03-01 Thread Magnus Danielson

Tom,

On 02/28/2015 06:10 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:

A good paper to read about the trouble when DUT is close (or equal to REF) is:
http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf
Isolating Frequency Measurement Error and Sourcing Frequency Error near the 
Reference Frequency Harmonics


Nice reading and illustration of the problem. It does not go into
explain where these errors come from.

I especially like that he worked on an offset frequency to handle source
issues and that he elaborates with both time-base time and frequency
offset, as well as average and peak-to-peak values.

Have you seen any papers going into depth about that?


The Robert Leiby (5990-9189EN) paper was a real find. Agilent sent it to me 
after I ran tests of their new 53230A counter. I had two of them on loan (TCXO 
and OCXO) and the closer I looked the less I was impressed. The one feature 
that was a show-stopper for me was that the TCXO version would not outperform 
the OCXO version even if you gave it a BVA or maser as external reference to 
the counter.

That means in order to get decent performance out of the 53230A you must buy 
the overpriced OCXO version of the counter. I wonder if anyone else has run 
into this? Maybe my eval units were out of spec. Or, I wonder if anyone has 
opened their 53230A and hacked the timebase PLL to overcome this problem?

Anyway, that led to me checking out a pile of 53132A counters to see how well 
they performed.


Yes, it makes good sense to follow up with those.

The paper is indeed a good find.


In these tests I like to use slightly drifting, ultrastable, independent inputs instead 
of the old BNC tee trick where CH1=CH2 or CH1=CH2=REF. What you want is to 
see is not only the RMS noise in a measurement, but also how consistent the TI 
measurements are across the entire fundamental period of the inputs or timebase.


Indeed. The time error over the time-base period is relevant to measure, 
but also you have cross-talk from time-base into channels as well as 
cross-talk between channels. For the frequency case, you might not 
expect there to be cross-talk, but there will be if the frequency 
measure uses the start and stop channels.



For my test I used two ultrastable sources with 1e-12 or 1e-11 frequency 
offset. At 1e-11 you can scan an entire 100 ns period in 10,000 seconds (under 
3 hours). I'd have to look at my notes to see what I did with the REF input. I 
think I tried REF=CH1 and REF=CH2 and REF=3rd independent source. But the main 
goal was to see the interaction between CH1 and CH2 because that's the mode 
used by any TI measurement.


Indeed. It can be hard to separate the non-linearity of a channel (over 
the time-base period) from the cross-talk from reference to channel.
The non-linearity usually has a periodicity over the time-base reference 
due to the use of a coarse counter frequency (such as 90, 100, 200 and 
500 MHz) where as some (HP5335A, HP5334A/B) uses the time-base directly 
as coarse counters.



Enrico have been looking at post-processing filtering, and it's effects.

I just haven't seen any paper giving much about how cross-talk and such
affects non-linearity and post-processing such as frequency reading and
ADEV. I have my own model from experience and various sources, but not
seen anything comprehensive.

Cheers,
Magnus


Right, there's no paper that I could find yet. Instead I was planning on taking several 
models of popular high-end TI counters (SR620, HP5370, CNT-91, 53132A, 53230A) and run 
them all through the same offset/linearity test to investigate the fine 
structure of their measurement errors, as was done in the Leiby paper. If you have 
some measurement setup suggestions beyond what I already did with the 53132 counters, let 
me know.


Leiby's paper is focused on the frequency measurement and in particular 
the non-linearities of the hardware in relation to frequency 
measurements. The underlying model is time errors and considering that 
the frequency estimate f = events/(t_stop - t_start) the non-linearities 
in the time estimations t_stop and t_start will be subtracted from each 
other. As the number of complete cycles of error increases with tau, the 
remaining time error within such a period will be divided by a tau. 
Consider the period formula

t_period = (t_stop - t_start)/events
Consider that events = tau*f_1, t_start = 0 + te_start, t_stop = tau + 
te_stop (approximation for understanding) we get

t_period = 1/f_1 + (te_stop - te_start)/(tau*f_1)

No wonder that the period (and thus frequency) measure errors varies 
with tau and measured frequency.


Rather than measuring with free-floating oscillators, I have been 
considering using frequency syntesizers as in Leiby's article and 
programmable delays. That way I can stay at a particular delay and bang 
the same point and get statistics. The histogram will give me 
information about the offset and coupling properties.


I think this could be an interesting paper maybe.

Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-28 Thread Magnus Danielson

Tom,

On 02/27/2015 01:18 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:

2) Does any one have the test data of 12 digit/s counter when DUT=REF?
I want to know the gap between mine and a  commercial counter.


Thanks

Li Ang


I did a lot of testing of 53132A counters a while back to research how well the 
interpolators worked and to measure the interference when CH1 gets too close to 
CH2. There was some discussion on the list about this at the time.

For the context, see: 
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2014-April/084670.html
For the plots, see: http://leapsecond.com/pages/53132/

A good paper to read about the trouble when DUT is close (or equal to REF) is:
http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf
Isolating Frequency Measurement Error and Sourcing Frequency Error near the 
Reference Frequency Harmonics


Nice reading and illustration of the problem. It does not go into 
explain where these errors come from.


I especially like that he worked on an offset frequency to handle source 
issues and that he elaborates with both time-base time and frequency 
offset, as well as average and peak-to-peak values.


Have you seen any papers going into depth about that?

Enrico have been looking at post-processing filtering, and it's effects.

I just haven't seen any paper giving much about how cross-talk and such 
affects non-linearity and post-processing such as frequency reading and 
ADEV. I have my own model from experience and various sources, but not 
seen anything comprehensive.


Cheers,
Magnus
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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-28 Thread Tom Van Baak
 A good paper to read about the trouble when DUT is close (or equal to REF) 
 is:
 http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf
 Isolating Frequency Measurement Error and Sourcing Frequency Error near the 
 Reference Frequency Harmonics
 
 Nice reading and illustration of the problem. It does not go into 
 explain where these errors come from.
 
 I especially like that he worked on an offset frequency to handle source 
 issues and that he elaborates with both time-base time and frequency 
 offset, as well as average and peak-to-peak values.
 
 Have you seen any papers going into depth about that?

The Robert Leiby (5990-9189EN) paper was a real find. Agilent sent it to me 
after I ran tests of their new 53230A counter. I had two of them on loan (TCXO 
and OCXO) and the closer I looked the less I was impressed. The one feature 
that was a show-stopper for me was that the TCXO version would not outperform 
the OCXO version even if you gave it a BVA or maser as external reference to 
the counter.

That means in order to get decent performance out of the 53230A you must buy 
the overpriced OCXO version of the counter. I wonder if anyone else has run 
into this? Maybe my eval units were out of spec. Or, I wonder if anyone has 
opened their 53230A and hacked the timebase PLL to overcome this problem?

Anyway, that led to me checking out a pile of 53132A counters to see how well 
they performed.

In these tests I like to use slightly drifting, ultrastable, independent inputs 
instead of the old BNC tee trick where CH1=CH2 or CH1=CH2=REF. What you want 
is to see is not only the RMS noise in a measurement, but also how consistent 
the TI measurements are across the entire fundamental period of the inputs or 
timebase.

For my test I used two ultrastable sources with 1e-12 or 1e-11 frequency 
offset. At 1e-11 you can scan an entire 100 ns period in 10,000 seconds (under 
3 hours). I'd have to look at my notes to see what I did with the REF input. I 
think I tried REF=CH1 and REF=CH2 and REF=3rd independent source. But the main 
goal was to see the interaction between CH1 and CH2 because that's the mode 
used by any TI measurement.

 Enrico have been looking at post-processing filtering, and it's effects.
 
 I just haven't seen any paper giving much about how cross-talk and such 
 affects non-linearity and post-processing such as frequency reading and 
 ADEV. I have my own model from experience and various sources, but not 
 seen anything comprehensive.
 
 Cheers,
 Magnus

Right, there's no paper that I could find yet. Instead I was planning on taking 
several models of popular high-end TI counters (SR620, HP5370, CNT-91, 53132A, 
53230A) and run them all through the same offset/linearity test to investigate 
the fine structure of their measurement errors, as was done in the Leiby 
paper. If you have some measurement setup suggestions beyond what I already did 
with the 53132 counters, let me know.

Thanks,
/tvb
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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Van Baak
 2) Does any one have the test data of 12 digit/s counter when DUT=REF?
 I want to know the gap between mine and a  commercial counter.
 
 
 Thanks
 
 Li Ang

I did a lot of testing of 53132A counters a while back to research how well the 
interpolators worked and to measure the interference when CH1 gets too close to 
CH2. There was some discussion on the list about this at the time.

For the context, see: 
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2014-April/084670.html
For the plots, see: http://leapsecond.com/pages/53132/

A good paper to read about the trouble when DUT is close (or equal to REF) is:
http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-9189EN.pdf
Isolating Frequency Measurement Error and Sourcing Frequency Error near the 
Reference Frequency Harmonics

See also: https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2012-October/070737.html

/tvb
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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-27 Thread Li Ang
 Hi
   Thanks about the explanation on hysteresis and comparator.
   The PM6685(http://assets.fluke.com/manuals/PM6685__smeng.pdf )
is using 74ALS176 as the frontend for REF channel.
So
I tried that on the previous board. The performance is better with
74ALS176+74LVC2G14 than MC100LVELT22 at the sin wave input condition.
Since the stdev has reached the spec of TDC chip, I need to do
some more experiments with these chips next.
There are some questions I want to ask:
1) Does the trigger interval need to be very accurate? Now I am using
software scheduler to generate the interval, it might vary few ms.
2) Does any one have the test data of 12 digit/s counter when DUT=REF?
I want to know the gap between mine and a  commercial counter.


Thanks

Li Ang

2015-02-27 4:30 GMT+08:00 Charles Steinmetz csteinm...@yandex.com:

 Magnus wrote:

  A bit of hysteresis can help to avoid flipping back, but considering the
 type of signal, it passes the mid-point (0 V) at highest slew-rate, so
 there is very little risk of flipping back and fourth in the first
 place, so hysteresis may not even be needed.


 A 1 Vrms, 10MHz sine wave has a zero-cross slew rate of 88v/uS (88mV/nS).
 One would think that would be enough to avoid indecision in a comparator
 with 5-10nS of propagation delay.  However, the LT1016 (10nS) is prone to
 jitter problems when operating as a ZCD with such a signal, and external
 hysteresis does not help much because it is delayed by 10nS.  (The problem
 appears to be that the front end has some indecision at this input slew
 rate that happens faster than the propagation delay to the output -- but
 this is just an inference because the internal nodes are not accessible for
 measurement.)  For this application, the small amount of internal
 hysteresis of the LT1719 and LT1720 is very beneficial.

 Best regards,

 Charles





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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-26 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:44:40 -0800
Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote:

 The Schmitt trigger mostly avoids glitches on the output.  Does it do 
 anything to reduce timing noise if the input signal is clean enough that it 
 doesn't make any glitches?

A Schmitt Trigger avoids glitches at the input, not the output.
It does prevent the input circuitry in the gate to switch back and forth
between 0 and 1, or, even worse, from going metastable.

This by itself might improve timing, if you have problems due to low
slew rate. But as Magnus wrote, in general does not improve things.


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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-26 Thread Magnus Danielson

Hi Charles,

On 02/26/2015 02:46 AM, Charles Steinmetz wrote:



The Schmitt trigger mostly avoids glitches on the output.  Does it do
anything to reduce timing noise if the input signal is clean enough
that it
doesn't make any glitches?


No, it just avoids flipping state at the transition point(s).


Note also that the hysteresis of logic gates with Schmitt inputs is WAY
too much to be optimal for squaring sine waves (300mV minimum, typically
400 to 450mV, for the 74LVC14).  Fast comparators with internal
hysteresis are optimized for that sort of thing (the LT1719 and LT1720
have a few mV of hysteresis).


Indeed.

If you think about what large hysteresis does on a sine, it moves the 
trigger points further up and down on the sine from the mid-point, which 
moves them into lower slew-rate areas.


If you are picky, amplitude variations will then also move the phase 
more than mid-point triggers.


A bit of hysteresis can help to avoid flipping back, but considering the 
type of signal, it passes the mid-point (0 V) at highest slew-rate, so 
there is very little risk of flipping back and fourth in the first 
place, so hysteresis may not even be needed.


Cheers,
Magnus
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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-26 Thread Charles Steinmetz

Magnus wrote:


A bit of hysteresis can help to avoid flipping back, but considering the
type of signal, it passes the mid-point (0 V) at highest slew-rate, so
there is very little risk of flipping back and fourth in the first
place, so hysteresis may not even be needed.


A 1 Vrms, 10MHz sine wave has a zero-cross slew rate of 88v/uS 
(88mV/nS).  One would think that would be enough to avoid indecision 
in a comparator with 5-10nS of propagation delay.  However, the 
LT1016 (10nS) is prone to jitter problems when operating as a ZCD 
with such a signal, and external hysteresis does not help much 
because it is delayed by 10nS.  (The problem appears to be that the 
front end has some indecision at this input slew rate that happens 
faster than the propagation delay to the output -- but this is just 
an inference because the internal nodes are not accessible for 
measurement.)  For this application, the small amount of internal 
hysteresis of the LT1719 and LT1720 is very beneficial.


Best regards,

Charles




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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread Hal Murray

att...@kinali.ch said:
 Yes. You should not use a logic gates with analog input signals. Using a
 74LVC14 helps due to its Schmitt-Trigger input. I think the proper solution
 here would be to use a high speed comparator instead (with hysteresis). 

The Schmitt trigger mostly avoids glitches on the output.  Does it do 
anything to reduce timing noise if the input signal is clean enough that it 
doesn't make any glitches?


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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread Li Ang
Hi Attila
  Thanks for the history about 74 series.
  BTW, The result.gif is a TDEV chart. I only know that different K means
different kinds of noise. I don't know what it means if the turnning corner
comes earlier or latter.

Hi Charles
 Thanks for the circuit. I have some LT1016 in hand, I will evaluate with
it.



2015-02-25 0:02 GMT+08:00 Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch:

 On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:43:10 +0800
 Li Ang lll...@gmail.com wrote:

  I saw people talking about using 74AC to square the signal, what's
 the
  difference between 74LVC and 74AC? 74AC is not easy to get.

 These are different families of chip production. You can see the 74HCxx as
 the grandfather, 74ACxx as the father and the 74LVCxx as the son.

 IIRC the AC (Advanced CMOS) was introduced in the 80s. The process
 which they were produced got superseeded and also the voltage levels
 went down. The LVC (Low Voltage CMOS) and LVX families are the current
 choice for logic gates. The main difference is that the node size (those nm
 measures people boast with, when they talk about chips these days) went
 down and with that the threshold voltage of the FETs and the maximum
 voltage the chips can withstand. Of course there are differences in the
 timing specs as well.

 TI's Logic Guide[1] and their Logic Migration Guide[2] contain
 additional information.


 Attila Kinali


 [1] http://www.ti.com/lit/sg/sdyu001aa/sdyu001aa.pdf
 [2] http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/scyb032/scyb032.pdf

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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread David C. Partridge
You might wish to look at the LTC6957 as your input shaper device.  I think 
you'll find it far superior to either 74xx logic or fast comparator such as the 
LT1016.

Cheers, Dave 

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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread Charles Steinmetz

Li Ang wrote:


I have some LT1016 in hand, I will evaluate with it.


I know it is tempting to use what is in hand rather than source new 
parts, but for squaring 10MHz the LT1719 and LT1720 are much better 
suited than the LT1016.  They have internal hysteresis, which makes 
them much easier to apply, and they are more than twice as fast as 
the 1016 (4 to 4.5nS vs. 10nS), which is a real consideration at 
10MHz (50nS half-period).  The 1016 is quite fussy -- even with good 
construction techniques and bypassing, they tend to oscillate and 
exhibit other funny behaviors.  I think you will find that using the 
LT1719 or LT1720 gives much better results.


Best regards,

Charles



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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread Charles Steinmetz



The Schmitt trigger mostly avoids glitches on the output.  Does it do
anything to reduce timing noise if the input signal is clean enough that it
doesn't make any glitches?


No, it just avoids flipping state at the transition point(s).


Note also that the hysteresis of logic gates with Schmitt inputs is 
WAY too much to be optimal for squaring sine waves (300mV minimum, 
typically 400 to 450mV, for the 74LVC14).  Fast comparators with 
internal hysteresis are optimized for that sort of thing (the LT1719 
and LT1720 have a few mV of hysteresis).


Best regards,

Charles


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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-25 Thread Magnus Danielson

Hi Hal,

On 02/25/2015 10:44 AM, Hal Murray wrote:


att...@kinali.ch said:

Yes. You should not use a logic gates with analog input signals. Using a
74LVC14 helps due to its Schmitt-Trigger input. I think the proper solution
here would be to use a high speed comparator instead (with hysteresis).


The Schmitt trigger mostly avoids glitches on the output.  Does it do
anything to reduce timing noise if the input signal is clean enough that it
doesn't make any glitches?


No, it just avoids flipping state at the transition point(s).

The trigger jitter problem remains the same, regardless if it is at one 
voltage (comparator with no hysteresis) or two voltages (comparator with 
hysteresis aka Schmitt trigger), the slew-rate at the comparator voltage 
and the noise will interact to create trigger jitter. If you want to 
improve on that the main solution is to improve slew rate, but naturally 
careful filtering can help.


It is all to often that I have encountered people to confuse the 
Schmitt-trigger for improving the timing jitter. It's movement in two 
different domains, voltage (schmitt trigger) and time (trigger jitter).


Cheers,
Magnus
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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-24 Thread Li Ang
Hi Magnus,
The C channel is the SMA on the back of the PCB. The input of 74LVC2G14
is set to 0.5vcc with 1k resistor and AC coupled with 100nF.
Today I compared the performance 74LVC2G04, 74LVC2G17, 74LVC2G14.
http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq//freqcntv4.1/test/20150224/  .
I saw people talking about using 74AC to square the signal, what's the
difference between 74LVC and 74AC? 74AC is not easy to get.

Thanks

Li Ang

2015-02-24 5:36 GMT+08:00 Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org:

 Dear Li Ang,

 Nice to have you back reporting on your progress!

 Now, you have some pretty impressive performance going on there. Looks
 like a nice little unit too.

 Is the C-channel the SMA on the back of the PCB?

 How did you wire up the 74LVC2G14?

 While it is tempting to use both channels in it, don't if you want to keep
 cross-talk between channels low.

 Cheers,
 Magnus


 On 02/23/2015 02:10 PM, Li Ang wrote:

 Hi,
 I'm back. I have been testing my new borad for days.
 Compared to previous version, this board makes the PCB track of
 signals far from each other and replaces LDO for TDC with LP5907.
 CH_A: simple resistor bias and ac couple front end, CH_B:
 CH_A+MC100LVELT22 LVPECL , CH_C: CH_A+74LVC2G14 .
 At first, the result is worse than previous board. Using CH_B as the
 REF and DUT source, the stdev of the phase measurement is about 160ps. The
 old board can reach about 70ps. CH_A and CH_C are way much better than
 CH_B. That bothers me for days.
 Today, I use the 74LVC2G14 to square the signal from MV89A, and do
 the same test. For all three channel, the stdevs are about 37ps. The spec
 of TDC_GP22 is 35ps. And now the performance looks a little bit better than
 the previous board.  It looks like that the jitter of MC100LVELT22 is much
 bigger at slow slew rate.
 It seems that next step is to play with the front end.


 The raw data is uploaded to http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq/
 freqcntv4.1/test/20150222/
 The pic of this version is uploaded to http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq/
 freqcntv4.1/pic/ ‍




 Regards
 Li Ang



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Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-24 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:10:30 +0800
Li Ang 379...@qq.com wrote:

Thanks for the update!

  It looks like that the jitter of MC100LVELT22 is much bigger at slow slew 
 rate.

Yes. You should not use a logic gates with analog input signals.
Using a 74LVC14 helps due to its Schmitt-Trigger input. I think
the proper solution here would be to use a high speed comparator
instead (with hysteresis).

Do you have an Idea why the ADEV diverges between 10s and 100s?
Are those temperature effects on the different input configurations?
Or is it an artefact of the measurement?

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[time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-23 Thread Li Ang
Hi,
   I'm back. I have been testing my new borad for days.
   Compared to previous version, this board makes the PCB track of signals far 
from each other and replaces LDO for TDC with LP5907.
   CH_A: simple resistor bias and ac couple front end, CH_B: 
CH_A+MC100LVELT22 LVPECL , CH_C: CH_A+74LVC2G14 .
   At first, the result is worse than previous board. Using CH_B as the REF and 
DUT source, the stdev of the phase measurement is about 160ps. The old board 
can reach about 70ps. CH_A and CH_C are way much better than CH_B. That bothers 
me for days.
   Today, I use the 74LVC2G14 to square the signal from MV89A, and do the same 
test. For all three channel, the stdevs are about 37ps. The spec of TDC_GP22 is 
35ps. And now the performance looks a little bit better than the previous 
board.  It looks like that the jitter of MC100LVELT22 is much bigger at slow 
slew rate.
   It seems that next step is to play with the front end. 


The raw data is uploaded to 
http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq/freqcntv4.1/test/20150222/
The pic of this version is uploaded to 
http://www.qsl.net/b/bi7lnq/freqcntv4.1/pic/ ‍




Regards
Li Angattachment: results.gif
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