Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-23 Thread EWKehren
om [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of ewkeh...@aol.com Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 8:58 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC Paul, following all the responses to this posting I think a old fashioned D/M is still the answer for

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-23 Thread Paul A. Cianciolo
Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of ewkeh...@aol.com Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 8:58 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC Paul, following all the responses to this posting I think

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-22 Thread EWKehren
Jergen, I am glad to release every thing, there are no secrets if there is interest I will gladly send you and for that matter any one else interested off line schematics and pictures. I do not want to flood the list since there is only sparse interest also I am limited by the attachment size

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-22 Thread Jeroen Bastemeijer
Dear Bert, Reading your description, did make me curious. I understand you don't want release too much in order to avoid confusion in the future. But do you have some more material you can share with us? Thank you, best regards, Jeroen On 08/19/2011 02:57 PM, ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Paul, f

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-19 Thread EWKehren
Paul, following all the responses to this posting I think a old fashioned D/M is still the answer for you. For years there have been discussions on using latest technology but limited to discussion no hardware. Maybe now is the time it will change. That is why two years ago I set out do de

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Herrero
Thanks for the links, Javier! Will have a look at it asap. Regards, Javier El 19/08/2011 00:55, Javier Serrano escribió: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Bruce Griffiths< bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: CERN make all the required DDMTD VHDL code freely available. Voilà: http://www

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Herrero
Hi, El 19/08/2011 00:28, Tijd Dingen escribió: Generally speaking, any ADC approach that uses /affordable/ ADC's (read: no GHz sampling rates) will result in lower number of timestamps per second than with the TDC in fpga approach. I know, I know :) As I said, first I'm looking around the dif

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Serrano
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Bruce Griffiths < bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > CERN make all the required DDMTD VHDL code freely available. > > Voilà: http://www.ohwr.org/projects/wr-cores/repository/revisions/master/changes/modules/timing/dmtd_with_deglitcher.vhd It is not terribly c

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Serrano
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Tijd Dingen wrote: > > I'm meeting timing in a 390 MHz design with 192 taps (admittedly after a > quite a bit of messing with the tools to get P&R to do what I want). The > pipeline obviously is more stages... But maybe you guys are doing something > different. O

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Tijd Dingen
design headaches. Anyways, just curious as to why the 125 MHz sampling rate. regards, Fred From: Javier Serrano To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or o

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Tijd Dingen
olve problem once, instantiate many times == multi-channel TDC for a nice price. regards, Fred From: Javier Herrero To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC El 18/08/2011 22:16,

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Serrano
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Javier Herrero wrote: > > My main interest is a TIC with better resolution than a 5370 and also with > higher data flow, or with the capabilities to do some post-processing of a > bunch of data. Really it is an idea I've from long, but not yet though too > serious

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Herrero
El 18/08/2011 22:16, Tijd Dingen escribió: So while I am not directly looking to divide my tinkering time between this project and yet another project, if what you plan to do in the fpga precision timing realm coincides enough ... it might be useful to combine some things. At the very least w

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Tijd Dingen
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC El 18/08/2011 08:37, Bruce Griffiths escribió: > DMTD or dual mixer time difference. > An all digital version (DDMTD like that used

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Javier Herrero wrote: El 18/08/2011 08:37, Bruce Griffiths escribió: DMTD or dual mixer time difference. An all digital version (DDMTD like that used in CERN's White Rabbit) is also possible 3 (and M) input versions are also feasible. Either an FPGA or a CPD plus a microprocessor are required

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Javier Herrero
El 18/08/2011 08:37, Bruce Griffiths escribió: DMTD or dual mixer time difference. An all digital version (DDMTD like that used in CERN's White Rabbit) is also possible 3 (and M) input versions are also feasible. Either an FPGA or a CPD plus a microprocessor are required to ensure low cost.

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Camp
time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Paul Cianciolo Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:11 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC Hello Folks, I am looking for an instrument that is better than Fluke 103a comparator. T

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-17 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Paul Cianciolo wrote: Hello Folks, I am looking for an instrument that is better than Fluke 103a comparator. The purpose of this piece of equipment is help me learn more about oscillators and characterizing them The HP5370B is the TIC I keep hearing about but I am not glued to that make or mo

Re: [time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 18/08/11 05:10, Paul Cianciolo wrote: Hello Folks, I am looking for an instrument that is better than Fluke 103a comparator. The purpose of this piece of equipment is help me learn more about oscillators and characterizing them The HP5370B is the TIC I keep hearing about but I am not glued t

[time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Cianciolo
Hello Folks, I am looking for an instrument that is better than Fluke 103a comparator. The purpose of this piece of equipment is help me learn more about oscillators and characterizing them   The HP5370B is the TIC I keep hearing about but I am not glued to that make or model. I wou;d like to hea