Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

2012-08-24 Thread raj_sodhi
Hello Bruce and others, Thanks for the clarifications. Thanks to your e-mail, the light went on about the difference between slope gain g and voltage gain G. I'm continuing to struggle with equation 3b. We are all on the same page regarding this idea that when the clipper is at its negative or

Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

2012-08-22 Thread raj_sodhi
Hello Everyone, Thanks to Azelio, Bob and David for their comments. Special thanks to Magnus for clarifying the intent of this paper. I think I begin to understand the 'k' term. When I look at jitter, I actually look at residual phase noise using the E5500 phase noise measurement system. One

Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

2012-08-21 Thread raj_sodhi
Hi Everyone, I uploaded the paper to my music website. http://www.rajsodhi.com/images/The%20Design%20of%20Low%20Jitter%20Hard%20Limiters,%20Oliver%20Collins%20May%201996.pdf Yours, Raj -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf

[time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

2012-08-21 Thread raj_sodhi
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. It looks like a lively discussion on various topics. A colleague of mine here at Agilent pointed me to this paper entitled "The Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" by Oliver Collins. In Bruce Griffiths' precision time in frequency webpage, this paper