Taka, It depends on the edge rate of the driver. You wont need an 18 GHz relay.
The edge rate of the driver depends on many things, but it is likely not to be any faster than 1V/nS
Now in all the trimbles I worked with, the falling edge , actively pulled to ground was the line with the deterministic transition time.
Using 0.35 = Btr, the bandwidth is approx 350 MHz . the likelyhood is, with the way things are connected, the lack of any termination from the single ended pps signal etc, the bandwidth is unlikely to exceed 50 MHz.
You may be well advised to atttempt to terminate the 1pps signal to provide a deterministic edge rate and control crosstalk and reflections. If you have short cables, the reflection bouncing around may cause jitter if the edge rate was low enough. .
However, do be mindful of crosstalk from the alternate switch contact. The cross talk will be extremely low for signals up to 500 MHz for a good coaxial relay, especially into a high Z load. The high Z load will permit crosstalk due to the capacitance ont he relay contacts, so another good reason to hold the input resistance of the load of the 1pps down to less than a few hundred ohms
You do have to be careful of rising crosstalk using ADG901 etc solid state switches . A logic multiplexer might be a good choice if the jitter introduced is not an issue.
glen On 7/07/2019 4:06 AM, Taka Kamiya via time-nuts wrote:
I am trying to come up with a viable design to encase TICC along with 10MHz -> 1 pps converter. My plan is to share the input connector and switch in/out the converter. 1 pps, although technically a 1Hz signal, rise time and duration is awfully short on some sources. I'm sure constituent signal will go way into RF range. I am not capable of calculating this. But, that means I really have to treat it as an RF signal, correct? Otherwise, slower rise will cause error as it will cross the threshold later than initiation of the pulse. Question is, how careful do I need to be? My plan is to use two 18GHz microwave relay per channel to bypass/place-in the converter. I know this would be OK but am I over-doing this? I also have a miniature relay in DIP size but I'm afraid it may not be sufficient. There is not a frequency spec, and consistency may be an issue. Advise, please? --------------------------------------- (Mr.) Taka Kamiya KB4EMF / ex JF2DKG _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
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