One can minimize temperature change which affects things like
regulated voltages, CMOS transition points for those converting
sine to TTL with gates, etc. in addition to the oscillators.
The November issue of Nuts and Volts Magazine has an article on an
Arduino based PID controller which might interest someone who wants
to experiment with reducing temperature effects by controlling
temperature.
Bob M
On 10/31/2017 8:42 PM, jimlux wrote:
On 10/31/17 1:47 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote:
HI
TCXO is a very loosely defined term. A part that does +/- 5 ppm
-40 to +85C
is a TCXO. A part that does +/- 5x10^-9 over 0 to 50C may also be
a TCXO.
Dividing the total deviation of either one by the temperature
range to come
up with a “delta frequency per degree” number would be a mistake. You
would get a number that is much better than the real part exhibits.
Working all this back into a holdover spec in an unknown temperature
environment is not at all easy.
Very much so - most of the TCXO curves I've seen tend to be "much"
better than the spec over the central part of the frequency range
(which makes sense, the underlying crystal is a cubic with temp,
most likely)
Retrace and hysteresis might be your dominant uncertainty.
I've attached a typical TCXO data plot for your viewing pleasure..
(that's an expensive oscillator, because it's for space, but I don't
think space or not changes the underlying performance)
Bob
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