Hi Magnus, Agree with all your points. On the added noise due to an accelerometer, my thoughts are that this needs to be carefully designed so as not to add more error than we are actually removing (due to phase shifts between crystal sensitivity and the accelerometer response for example, and due to random noise). For example, if we do the compensation in the digital domain, and use a 10 bit ADC on the accelerometer, and a full-scale compensation is say 2E-09, then the quantization noise itself (1/2 of 1 LSB on average, or about 4E-013 just due to the quantization noise) may already be considerable. So we need to use a good ADC, and very low noise accelerometer :) While building and carefully calibrating a unit for Time-Nuts enjoyment is possible, I would think bringing such technology into large-scale mass production is quite a challenge. bye, Said In a message dated 7/12/2009 03:08:41 Pacific Daylight Time, mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org writes:
> Also, Mems, or other accelerometers have inherent noise, and to > compensate a crystal that has say +/-2E-09 per g sensitivity means one would have to > add up to +/-2E-09 in offset statically. That's a lot of deviation, and > any noise from the mems would find its way into the Allan > Variance/phase-noise. Which is scaled by the g-sensitivity of the crystal. If you have a g-sensitivity of 2E-6 of the crystal and then compensate that with a noise of 2E-9 you would end up with a 4E-15 noise contribution. Right? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.