Re: [time-nuts] Paper about DCF77 performance

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Engeler
The clock-correction seemed a bit crude. I expected to find a PI-filter and a phase-accumulator to steer the 300 MHz to 37 MHz synthesis. Actually I do use a phase accumulator, in Fig. 26 it's inside the binary search block. The phase is accumulated during several seconds (longer for a noisy

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread Ton
Hello Hui, I found that I needed: Ag488Wrap.ibeos(devDesc, 0x040A); // 04 = terminate read when 0A = /n is detected as part of the initialization. Without this, the communication with my 5384A timed out. Also, see what happens when you press the reset button when you get error 52 while you

Re: [time-nuts] TimePod 5330A announcement/info (was TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements)

2012-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 00bf01cd4d12$f83a41d0$e8aec570$@pop.net, John Miles writes: Hi John, Congratulations on a good design. Why the 78 MHz sample frequency ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: [time-nuts] TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Camp
Hi At least with 60 Hz power (which may indeed behave differently than 50 Hz) everything I have seen so far has been in the OCXO's I'm testing. The TimePod it's self seems to be very immune to the usual ground loops and power supply noise issues. As you play with phase noise testing - be sure to

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread Azelio Boriani
I have seen that others had a communication problem with the HP5386A. When I use the Agilent IOLibrarySuite, this counter generates ghost sessions and can't enumerate correctly. I thought it was a faulty GPIB port at first but after reading all this I suspect it is the strange behaviour of the

Re: [time-nuts] TimePod 5330A announcement/info (was TimePod, cross-correlation fun and measurements)

2012-06-18 Thread John Miles
Hi John, Congratulations on a good design. Thanks! Why the 78 MHz sample frequency ? Long story: it's mostly arbitrary, but at least with some ADCs, it's beneficial to spur performance if the first few dozen harmonics of the ADC clock rate and the most commonly-used test frequencies don't

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread Hui Zhang
Hello Mike: Many thanks for useful information. The problem is I have no more information of my USB-GPIB controller, so I don't know any command of this device. I used stupid way to send my command, if I want send DI to increase the display digis, I will convert DI to HEX code, it's 0x44

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread Hui Zhang
Hello Ton: Thanks for your reply. I tried to send 0x040A to HP5386, but I did not receive any response. I pressed RESET button when I got 52 error message, the error message disappeared and frequency reading displayed in the receive buffer area of my Serial port Assitant software. Hui

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread cfo
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:29:07 +0200, Ton wrote: Hello Hui, I found that I needed: Ag488Wrap.ibeos(devDesc, 0x040A); // 04 = terminate read when 0A = /n is detected as part of the initialization. Without this, the communication with my 5384A timed out. That matches my findings on my

Re: [time-nuts] HP5386A GPIB

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Blazer
Hui, It sounds like the issue is with your OEM GPIB controller. Why don't you post some pictures of it and see if any of the Time Nuts can identify it? It probably is a generic version of some common interface. Mike On 6/18/2012 8:43 AM, Hui Zhang wrote: Hello Mike: Many thanks for