Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-28 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Dr Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:36:19 +1300 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hal Murray wrote: Driving a full 5V TTL signal into a 50 ohm load is another matter - you need a lot of DC power (1/2

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-28 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
I may have asked this before, but do you happen to have a few references on the extensions to Leeson's theory? Cheers, Magnus References are: /A General Theory of Phase Noise/ /in Electrical Oscillators/ Ali Hajimiri, Student Member, IEEE, and Thomas H. Lee, Member, IEEE IEEE JOURNAL OF

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Hal Murray
Driving a full 5V TTL signal into a 50 ohm load is another matter - you need a lot of DC power (1/2 watt) to do that. I was just using a Liner Tech LT1010 for a similar job - it would get the job done, but folks here might complain about the phase noise. Where does that phase noise come

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
David Forbes wrote: Jason Rabel wrote: A good initial buffer chip for all the TTL signals would be an IDT QS3384 with 10 inputs/outputs. Jason, The only problem with that part is that it's not a buffer! It's a switch. It has no drive capability at all. There are useful buffer

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
David Forbes wrote: Jason Rabel wrote: A good initial buffer chip for all the TTL signals would be an IDT QS3384 with 10 inputs/outputs. Jason, The only problem with that part is that it's not a buffer! It's a switch. It has no drive capability at all. There are useful buffer

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Hal Murray wrote: Driving a full 5V TTL signal into a 50 ohm load is another matter - you need a lot of DC power (1/2 watt) to do that. I was just using a Liner Tech LT1010 for a similar job - it would get the job done, but folks here might complain about the phase noise. Where does

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
David Forbes wrote: Jason Rabel wrote: A good initial buffer chip for all the TTL signals would be an IDT QS3384 with 10 inputs/outputs. Jason, The only problem with that part is that it's not a buffer! It's a switch. It has no drive capability at all. There are useful buffer

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Jason Rabel
Jason, The only problem with that part is that it's not a buffer! It's a switch. It has no drive capability at all. There are useful buffer chips for this task, but their names escape me just now. Perhaps the 74FCT245 or equivalent would work. Driving a full 5V TTL signal into a 50

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-27 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Jason Rabel wrote: Jason, The only problem with that part is that it's not a buffer! It's a switch. It has no drive capability at all. There are useful buffer chips for this task, but their names escape me just now. Perhaps the 74FCT245 or equivalent would work. Driving a full 5V TTL

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board?

2006-11-24 Thread Randy Warner
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Rabel Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:38 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board? I have a couple of the Motorola Oncore UT+ boards, right now I just cobbled an interface to my zodiac dev kit

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board?

2006-11-24 Thread Norman J McSweyn
Jason, Mouser p/n# 575-003201 has just enough length of leads to bend straight and solder into wire wrap headers. Though tedious, wire wrap makes prototyping fairly easy as well as inexpensive. Good luck, Norm n3ykf ___ time-nuts mailing list

[time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-24 Thread rojellis
I have built 3 prototype boards for interfacing to a Motorola GT/UT GPS and I am about ready to order production boards. I was wondering how many users are looking for something like this, TAPR and another source have discontinued their products. Presently the design has a linear voltage regulator

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-24 Thread Jason Rabel
Hi Bob, Can you give some more specifics? Do you have a PDF schematic? What would the cost be? My main thing for the design I'm looking for is: 1. The same size as the UT board so they can be connected together (like the TAPR model) 2. Multiple buffered PPS outputs (TTL RS232 levels) and

Re: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board

2006-11-24 Thread Daun Yeagley
I would be interested in one if the cost is reasonable. Daun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:25 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board I

[time-nuts] Motorola Oncore GPS Interface Board?

2006-11-23 Thread Jason Rabel
I have a couple of the Motorola Oncore UT+ boards, right now I just cobbled an interface to my zodiac dev kit to use one, but I was looking for a more permanent interface board. Something similar to the one TAPR used to supply: http://www.tapr.org/gps_vpib.html Is there anyone out there that