Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 21/06/11 12:48, Luis Cupido wrote: Yes that right. Is clear that I would have a 10ns jitter, So the catch would be to find a scheme to spread spurs out or to push them away from carrier. Then they would not bother me (would not pass the PLL). You want to consider a phase-accumulator with a

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Luis Cupido
Magnus, It crossed my mind of messing somehow with the phase accumulator metrics but did not figure a way... that is a good suggestion I will investigate in that direction... (or maybe... if you do have a bit of free time to drop me a couple of lines more, could you please detail a bit more as

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
Dear Luis, On 07/21/2011 05:30 PM, Luis Cupido wrote: Magnus, It crossed my mind of messing somehow with the phase accumulator metrics but did not figure a way... that is a good suggestion I will investigate in that direction... (or maybe... if you do have a bit of free time to drop me a

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread dk4xp
IMHO, that would require a sine table with a steerable number of entries. Very problematic for a tunable DDS, but doable for a fixed frequency application, although address mirroring for ROM size reduction would require real address comparators instead just using the 2 MSBs as a selector. The

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Luis Cupido
Gerhard. This was an old thing I asked a month ago or so... Only the MSB of the accumulator is used to serve as reference to a pll. No sin or DAC involved ;-) Luis Cupido. ct1dmk On 7/21/2011 6:10 PM, dk...@arcor.de wrote: IMHO, that would require a sine table with a steerable number of

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread ehydra
Your algorithm looks very much like the solution to the problem how to find divider values in a rf receiver having a very low IF and *not* full length divider chains for dividing all the needed reference frequencies. So how to find two values connected. Interesting. - Henry --

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 07/21/2011 07:10 PM, dk...@arcor.de wrote: IMHO, that would require a sine table with a steerable number of entries. Very problematic for a tunable DDS, but doable for a fixed frequency application, although address mirroring for ROM size reduction would require real address comparators

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-07-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 07/21/2011 08:44 PM, Jim Lux wrote: On 7/21/11 8:30 AM, Luis Cupido wrote: Magnus, It crossed my mind of messing somehow with the phase accumulator metrics but did not figure a way... that is a good suggestion I will investigate in that direction... (or maybe... if you do have a bit of free

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-23 Thread Luis Cupido
Thanks Jim, Joseph already pointed me to a pdf in a previous post. Now it is digestion time... should I say congestion !!! those MASH delta-sigmas are killing me... lc. ct1dmk. On 6/23/2011 4:30 AM, Jim Lux wrote: On 6/22/11 3:36 PM, Luis Cupido wrote: I knew I must not have been the fist

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-22 Thread Luis Cupido
I knew I must not have been the fist one to be looking for such. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4014919 (unfortunately I'm not ieee member and $30 looks more like a book price to me... not an article... bahhh!) Luis Cupido. ct1dmk. On 6/21/2011 11:48 AM, Luis Cupido

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-22 Thread Joseph M Gwinn
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Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-22 Thread Jim Lux
On 6/22/11 3:36 PM, Luis Cupido wrote: I knew I must not have been the fist one to be looking for such. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4014919 (unfortunately I'm not ieee member and $30 looks more like a book price to me... not an article... bahhh!) Luis Cupido.

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Javier Herrero
Hello, El 21/06/2011 02:19, Luis Cupido escribió: Imagine an FPGA and a square wave coming out. Just that. Nothing more. (That is what I had in mind when querying about the MSB usage in the first place.) My first approach was the ACC MSB (and that is working already on the bench.) I

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Javier Herrero
But I forgot to add that the resultant jitter will be also the sampling rate period (10ns at 100MHz), so I think that the output will not be too clean... so I'm afraid it will not be a great improvement over using only the MSB :) Regards, Javier El 21/06/2011 08:37, Javier Herrero escribió:

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Ulrich Bangert
An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Betreff: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped. Folks, Many thanks to you all, for the info. This is indeed a great forum. My aplic. is a DDS signal that will serve as reference for a pll with a relatively narrow loop filter. As I said

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Luis Cupido
Hi Ulrich, Loop bandwidth could be in the KHz region or even less. I could choose more or less freely from Hz to many KHz but there are obvious tradeoffs and it is hard to decide. The phase noise of the VCO when I go too narrow versus the ammount of spurs when I go too wide. Application is the

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Luis Cupido
Yes that right. Is clear that I would have a 10ns jitter, So the catch would be to find a scheme to spread spurs out or to push them away from carrier. Then they would not bother me (would not pass the PLL). lc ct1dmk. On 6/21/2011 7:43 AM, Javier Herrero wrote: But I forgot to add that

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-21 Thread Luis Cupido
I've played with the core from altera for a while, but since I was only interested in 1 bit I'm now playing with my own code. Trivial variations on the plain old clocked accumulator architecture. lc On 6/21/2011 7:37 AM, Javier Herrero wrote: What it the topology you're using now? Also, I

[time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-20 Thread Luis Cupido
Folks, Many thanks to you all, for the info. This is indeed a great forum. My aplic. is a DDS signal that will serve as reference for a pll with a relatively narrow loop filter. As I said before. Most replies presume the analog world with DAC filters etc etc. But that I know ;-) I'm digging

Re: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.

2011-06-20 Thread ehydra
That is maybe interesting to you: http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Projects.htm#Frac - Henry -- ehydra.dyndns.info Luis Cupido schrieb: P.S. At the moment I'm testing on the bench with a real FPGA cyclone III with a 48bit dds at 100MHz fclock and at circa 6 and 18MHz output and it is not that