Poul-Henning,
On 01/05/2016 10:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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In message <553575724.582265.1452024437677.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com>,
Bruce Griffiths writes:
The noise of such Gilbert cell based analog multipliers far exceeds that of the
traditional mixer.
Yes, but does that really matter in this case ?
The interesting output will be coming out of a LPF so
most of the noise will die there?
You still raise the noise-level which is in the pass-band of those
filters. This will be true both for white noise and flicker noise.
The white noise will be particularly annoying as it then converts to
jitter through the slew-rate limitation as you go into the
trigger-circuit. To reduce this effect, we amplify up the signal in
steps, with higher and higher bandwidth to balance noise contribution
with slew-rate incrementation. Using noisy mixers rather than quieter
mixers makes this more worthwhile. The diode mixers needed does not have
to be very rare, just look at the 2N2222A based mixer out of NIST,
actually being a Harris chip with four transistors and a pair of off the
shelf transformers.
Yes, I've played with this, ran into the issues.
Tried to build a DTMD, but didn't manage to handle some problems before
it got side-tracked.
As always, choosing the trigg-point to have the highest slew-rate have
always been key to reducing timing jitter.k Turns out that most counters
isn't optimized for this property.
Cheers,
Magnus
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