Yo Bubba Dudes!, I'm considering attempting making a 10 MHz frequency difference meter sort of based on the Ticor 527. The design calls for using 100 MHz OCXO's and using the PLL difference to steer the EFC and then mix it with a PLL 90 MHz locked to the reference 10 MHz. Then that 10MHz difference is fed into the next stage PLL and the process repeated in the following stages. Hy problem is this. The only generally available 100MHz decade divider I've found is the 74LS196N. The problem arises that on the TI website it's advertised as going to 100 MHz BUT when one reads the data sheet it says that it only works to 85 MHz or so. I found on ebay the MC12080 100 MHz to 1.1GHz chip that can be configured to divide by 10. Now the ON units carried by the big name distributers are about $6. The Chicom no-brand-name units on ebay are less that $2 each. I'd really like to use the LS296 chip as it is a dip type and *genuine* ones sell for less than $2 on ebay. Since I need one OCXO for each decade stage plus one for the 90 MHz reference, at $50 each used on ebay this starts to get very expensive quickly. I did find some obscure 100 MHz decade counters on some design circuit on the net but I'd never heard of them and expect they will be unobtainum. The same seems to be true for the 74S and 74AC series.
So will the LS196 chip work reliably at 100 MHz or am I stuck with the MC 12080 or is there a better chip that I could use? Regards, Perrier _______________________________________________ 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.
