Tom tried to steer me to the PICTIC recently, and I sort of brushed him off, because, quite frankly I didn't understand. Now that I've really looked at it, it's a much better idea than using a dsPIC33 and brute-forcing it. But, I don't really need everything the PICTIC offers so I started doing surgery, and this is what I've come up with.
The nsVolts would feed one of the 10-bit ADC channels of the 18F2220 on the VE2ZAZ board, and the 1PPS signal does the obvious. I had no idea what to use for the RC, so I used smaller and smaller values till LTSpiceIV showed a large range over 360 degrees of phase. I realize that's probably a bad idea, but I have no point of reference, nor do I probably need the accuracy that would otherwise imply. The 1PPS input passes through the enabled tri-state buffers U2A and U2C to charge the cap until the Q output from the D-flop is sent high from the 10MHz signal and disables U2C. When the 1PPS goes low, the cap is discharged and the D-FLop is reset. In practice, the chips would be 74AC types. I could only find LTSpiceIV models for 74HCT chips. LTSpice says it's workable, but in practice, I don't know. It might be finicky or unstable. Any comments would be welcome. http://www.evoria.net/AE6RV/TIC/TIC.png Bob - AE6RV _______________________________________________ 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.
