But it is a separate ECL hex flip-flop chip fed by its own ultra low
noise regulator, not going directly into the FPGA.
John S.
On 6/13/2016 4:51 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
….. but …. The ECL inputs to an FPGA rarely do have lower noise.
Bob
On Jun 13, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Bruce Griffiths <bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
In order to extract useful information with a 1 bit ADC, the signal transition
region needs to be adequately sampled. Issues such as metastability need to be
addressed to ensure that useful phase noise noise data can be extracted.
There is some evidence (from NIST and elsewhere) that ECL can have lower phase
noise than CMOS at low offset frequencies.
Bruce
On Monday, 13 June 2016 8:12 PM, Bruce Griffiths
<bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Adjusting the sampling clock frequency so that is neither a harmonic nor a
harmonic of a subharmonic of either of the clock frequencies being compared
ensures that each clock waveform isnt repeatedly sampled at a small set of
points.i.e.
fsample != (m/n)*ftest
andfsample != (p/q)*freference
where m,n,p,q are integers.
When using a dual reference the difference between the frequencies of the pair
of reference sources should be significantly less than the lowest offset
frequency of interest.
Bruce
On Monday, 13 June 2016 6:00 PM, John Swenson <johnswens...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Hi TimeNuts, this is my first post to this list, I've been reading it
for years but haven't needed to post, now I'm starting a project and
need some advice.
I need to do a bunch of phase noise measurements but can't afford the
"big guys", the TimePod seems perfect and since the schematic has been
published I decided I would try my hand at making my own version.
I'm just doing phase noise measurements of digital clocks (square waves)
so it seems to me I don't need some of the circuitry in the TimePod, in
particular the digitally controlled RF attenuators and the ADCs
themselves. My idea is to use LVPECL flip-flops to sample the DUT and
reference clocks, convert the differential outputs to CMOS and feed the
FPGA inputs from that. Yes you loose AM noise riding on top of the
square wave, but is that really necessary for just square wave phase
noise measurements?
For a first pass cheap and dirty version of this I was planning on using
the LVPECL version of the Crystek 575 for the sample clock, will this
work? The TimePod schematic shows a VTUNE signal fed to the OCXO, if I
don't use that is something going to break? In other words will timelab
try and tweak the sample freaquency and get confused when nothing happens?
I plan on using the 2 reference clock measurement technique, but have a
couple questions about this. In the TimePod ch 0 and 2 are the input,
with separate jacks available. The "ref" input goes to ch 1 and 3. So it
looks like the two references have to go to 0 and 2 and the DUT to 1 and
3, even though that puts the references on the "input" and the DUT on
the "reference". Do you need to do anything special in TimeLab to
support this or does it automatically support it? Since I am doing my
own hardware and have four independent inputs do I do the same thing
(ref clocks on 0 and 2 and DUT on 1 and 3) or put the refs on 1 and 3
and the DUT on 0 and 2?
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
John S.
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