Re: [time-nuts] new tdc from Texas

2015-03-05 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:27:23 + Angus wrote: > I've not seen any mention of anything other than the TDC1000. > > I was a bit surprised that they went down the less-integrated route > and separated the TDC, but it turns out that for a lot of the sort of > things they designed it for, a uC pro

[time-nuts] AVAR <-> S_Y conversion

2015-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Wallner
Hello time-nuts community, I hope this is the right place for the following question :) I'm dealing with the simulation of powerlaw noise, and I stumbled upon something I cannot explain when I tried out some formulas of IEEE 1139 [1]: According to Table B.2 in [1] the one-sided power spectral d

[time-nuts] FYI HP 53131A counter

2015-03-05 Thread Gordon Batey
Greetings to the time nuts, I recently purchased this counter from Ebay. I don't have any connection with the seller. It looks brand new. It is the only HP item that I now have that is in current production. Ebay Item: 271777486308 Keep the time, Gordon WA4FJC __

Re: [time-nuts] new tdc from Texas

2015-03-05 Thread Ben Gamari
379998 <379...@qq.com> writes: > Hi > > The spec is similar with TDC-GP22. In double-res mode, the > resolution is 45ps, the stdev is 35ps. This unit is 55ps and > 35ps. Not sure when the sample chip is ready. The TSSOP package is > much more friendly to homebrew guys. > Indeed this looks like qu

[time-nuts] R: FYI HP 53131A counter

2015-03-05 Thread iov...@inwind.it
>Greetings to the time nuts, > >I recently purchased this counter from Ebay. I don't have any connection >with the seller. It looks brand new. It is the only HP item that I now >have that is in current production. > >Ebay Item: 271777486308 > >Keep the time, > >Gordon WA4FJC Probably the

Re: [time-nuts] AVAR <-> S_Y conversion

2015-03-05 Thread Attila Kinali
Servus! On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:35:51 +0100 Wolfgang Wallner wrote: > For the random walk noise the expected line is off by a factor of > exactly 2 from the calculated plot, and I don't know how to explain this > behavior. I'm probably the wrong one to answer, as I have never done any noise simu

Re: [time-nuts] new tdc from Texas

2015-03-05 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:39:44 -0500 Ben Gamari wrote: > Is this just a function of the ring oscillator > duty cycle being much smaller? There has been some development on how to do ring oscillators for TDC applications in recent years. Driven to a large part by the need for better (longer measure

Re: [time-nuts] 50 ohm driver

2015-03-05 Thread Martyn Smith
Hello, Thanks for all the feedback. I should explain. I have an existing product that uses the 74AC14. I have a customer who needs 5V into 50 ohm and can’t wait for the competitive product that does this, or for me to re-design my unit. So I have been looking for a quick fix. I got excited when I

Re: [time-nuts] 50 ohm driver

2015-03-05 Thread Hal Murray
mar...@ptsyst.com said: > BTW, the reason he wants this high voltage is because he is driving a very > long cable from the distribution amp to the actual receiver. If you have a long cable, the rise time at the driver isn't critical. It will get filtered out by the cable. Of course, how long

Re: [time-nuts] 50 ohm driver

2015-03-05 Thread paul swed
Martyn, How long is the cable you are driving? If you have large ground differentials you may destroy the chips very easily. Especially if between industrial buildings. Some of the things discussed here are fine for a hobby environment but somewhat questionable in a commercial business. Regards Pau