[time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
Now that my TIC is working with Bert's board, I'm considering taking the next step of designing a GPSDO from scratch.  There are several projects I'd like to do with a dsPIC33, so that was a natural choice.  But I now understand that it has an audio DAC and is not recommended for process

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 1401742940.44103.yahoomail...@web142705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Bob Stewart writ es: Could someone explain to me how such an audio DAC differs from a non -audio DAC and why it's not suitable for this application?=A0 Is this just a disclaimer from microchip to avoid liability or is there

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO? In message 1401742940.44103.yahoomail...@web142705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Bob Stewart writ es: Could someone explain to me how

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Chris Albertson
I think these kinds of DACs are meant to be clocked out at some fixed sample rate, like 44.1KHz and your software has to stuff a FIFO so there is some milliseconds of delay in the queue. Before you use these write some pseudo-code and see if you can make it work. One idea is to never write to

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Camp
From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO? In message 1401742940.44103.yahoomail...@web142705

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Stewart
of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO? Hi There are several reasons why they don’t recommend the typical MCU DAC for control applications: 1) They are noisy at low frequency (1/f noise corner

Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO?

2014-06-02 Thread Bob Camp
time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Audio DAC for GPSDO? Hi There are several reasons why they don’t recommend the typical MCU DAC for control applications: 1) They are noisy at low frequency (1/f noise corner