Hi Having hooked up a 9854 and tried it with realistic settings - it's not that great. If you run it at "magic" frequencies (where it's essentially just a divider) it looks like a divider.
Bob On Jul 9, 2013, at 5:03 AM, Anders Time <anderst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the input. > I have been looking at the Fluke 6160b, but I thought that there might be > something as good out there that is not 40years old! > I want to use the synthesizer as a flexible offset source for beat > frequency measurements. So the frequency range is 5 to 30MHz approx. > I read Rubiola et al. "Phase noise and amplitude noise in DDS" yesterday > and thinks that it might be worth a try to test the AD9854 or AD9912 to see > if it is good enough. If I understand the paper right they get really good > results. Is there any one with experience? > Thanks Anders > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.