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

2012-08-24 Thread raj_sodhi
Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" Once the gain stages enter saturation their noise contribution decreases significantly in a well designed limiter stage. The noise contri

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

2012-08-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 08/24/2012 12:07 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi In general, saturated logic (TTL / CMOS) will do better than non-saturated (ECL / LVDS). Faster with saturated generally = better, provided it's silicon. Once you go to high mobility semiconductors the 1/f noise picks up. Yes, you need a quiet supply

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

2012-08-23 Thread Bob Camp
Hi In general, saturated logic (TTL / CMOS) will do better than non-saturated (ECL / LVDS). Faster with saturated generally = better, provided it's silicon. Once you go to high mobility semiconductors the 1/f noise picks up. Yes, you need a quiet supply. How quiet is going to depend on your edg

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

2012-08-23 Thread David
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:00:10 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: >jmulc...@cox.net said: >> The amount of jitter verses logic family is all over the place as well. Take >> a look at an LS verses an HCT vs an S family and you will see what I mean. >> Some of them are very nasty, and are not all created equal

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

2012-08-22 Thread Hal Murray
jmulc...@cox.net said: > The amount of jitter verses logic family is all over the place as well. Take > a look at an LS verses an HCT vs an S family and you will see what I mean. > Some of them are very nasty, and are not all created equally. Is there any collection of hard data? How much does i

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

2012-08-22 Thread Jerry Mulchin
The amount of jitter verses logic family is all over the place as well. Take a look at an LS verses an HCT vs an S family and you will see what I mean. Some of them are very nasty, and are not all created equally. Jerry At 09:58 AM 8/22/2012, you wrote: >I was not measuring cycle to cycle jitter

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

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Griffiths
, or do we? Yours Raj -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Azelio Boriani Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:44 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Co

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

2012-08-22 Thread David
I was not measuring cycle to cycle jitter but the input to output jitter of a TTL gate itself when used as part of a delay circuit. The input circuit and input waveform to the gate are very similar to what would be expected in a sine wave zero crossing detector. Using a 7S11/7T11 in sequential sa

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

2012-08-22 Thread raj_sodhi
ussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" According to http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-8794EN.pdf the real time sampling scope (like the TDS220 or TDS3012) can measu

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

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Camp
-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Azelio Boriani Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:55 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" In your o

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

2012-08-22 Thread Azelio Boriani
According to http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-8794EN.pdf the real time sampling scope (like the TDS220 or TDS3012) can measure cycle to cycle jitter directly, whereas the equivalent time sampling has only one sample each trigger and a little delay on the sampling point for the nex

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

2012-08-22 Thread David
Do you mean with a 7404 hex inverter? I actually did something like this recently while adding a 75ns pre-trigger pulse to an existing fast rise pulse generator. The pre-trigger pulse ended up having significant pattern dependant jitter caused by the adjacent TTL divider chain modulating the supp

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

2012-08-22 Thread Azelio Boriani
In your opinion, if I build a 7404 ZCD and a hard limiter one, can I see the jitter difference on a simple 'scope (Tek TDS220 or TDS3012) or do I need the Wavecrest SIA3000? On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Since the Collins approach "tunes" the system for a single frequ

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

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Since the Collins approach "tunes" the system for a single frequency input (more or less), the approach is probably not the best for a "many decades" sort of frequency range. There are a number of things that he alludes to in the paper, but does not directly address. The most obvious is the

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

2012-08-21 Thread Azelio Boriani
Hi Raj, welcome. Thank you for joining the group and thanks to Magnus for his comment about the Collins' paper. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Magnus Danielson < mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote: > Hi Raj, > > > On 08/21/2012 06:50 PM, raj_so...@agilent.com wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I

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

2012-08-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Raj, On 08/21/2012 06:50 PM, raj_so...@agilent.com wrote: 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

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

2012-08-21 Thread raj_sodhi
Of Rex Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:39 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" On 8/21/2012 1:22 PM, David wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:43 -0600, wrot

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

2012-08-21 Thread Rex
On 8/21/2012 1:22 PM, David wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:43 -0600, wrote: 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

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

2012-08-21 Thread David
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:43 -0600, wrote: >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 Griffith

[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