I am using the simplest possible sine to square wave converter on my HP5313xA
counter time interval calibrator... a capacitively coupled HCMOS gate (74HC86)
biased at VCC/2 with two 47K resistors as shown in the LPRO manual and Wenzel's
squarer page. I was not expecting anything good, but was pleasantly surprised.
Attached is a plot of the xDEVS using a TAPR TICC... TICC clock was a 5071A
10 MHz, chA input was the squared output of the second 5071A output 10 MHz
signal divided to 1PPS with a TADD2-mini. The squarer prototype was built on
perf board using a DIP packaged part.
An update on the calibrator project: I have the PCBs on order and they have
supposedly been shipped, but are taking their sweet time getting here from
China (despite paying for DHL 3 day shipping). But, it looks like I need to
tweak the PCB since the rotary switches that I received do not match the
samples that I got... grrr... I have found a local guy that may be able to
assemble the boards for a quite reasonable price and another place for a
semi-resonable price.
The same PCB order also included the boards for the X72 rubidium interface.
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