Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/09/11 05:15, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: This article was in the PTTI proceedings around 1990. Highly recommended. This article might be what you refer to: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2doc=GetTRDoc.pdfAD=ADA515384 Cheers, Magnus Rick Karlquist On 9/9/2011 6:58

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/10/11 8:57 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 10/09/11 05:15, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: This article was in the PTTI proceedings around 1990. Highly recommended. This article might be what you refer to: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2doc=GetTRDoc.pdfAD=ADA515384

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Javier Herrero
Thanks, Magnus. The phrase The JPL units use a ua709-type operational amplifier to allow a high switching speed with low noise makes me thing a lot about how the concepts high switching speed and low noise have changed with time :) Regards, Javier El 10/09/2011 17:57, Magnus Danielson

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
If you want the original PTTI paper, see: http://www.pttimeeting.org/archivemeetings/1990papers/Vol%2022_20.pdf Zero-Crossing Detector with Sub-microsecond Jitter and Crosstalk G. J. Dick; P. F. Kuhnle; R. L. Sydnor Note that unlike IEEE, these PTTI and NIST archives are free. Both have

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/09/11 18:11, Jim Lux wrote: On 9/10/11 8:57 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 10/09/11 05:15, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: This article was in the PTTI proceedings around 1990. Highly recommended. This article might be what you refer to:

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Javier, On 10/09/11 18:15, Javier Herrero wrote: Thanks, Magnus. The phrase The JPL units use a ua709-type operational amplifier to allow a high switching speed with low noise makes me thing a lot about how the concepts high switching speed and low noise have changed with time :) Yes, it

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread ehydra
Hi! I'm reading on, so sorry for replying soon. Magnus, what is the next good paper? cheers - Henry Magnus Danielson schrieb: This paper is however only scratches the surface on bandwidth/gain analysis in balancing the added noise (per step) and added slew-rate gain (per step). --

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Gerhard Hoffmann
On 09.09.2011 11:52, Javier Herrero wrote: I think that the same question that has been discuted here a zillion times but usually around 10MHz... anyway, what would be the best way to convert a sine wave to a LVDS clock (preferably duty cycle 50%) at 180MHz? Texas Instruments suggest a LVDS

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Dear Henry, On 10/09/11 21:23, ehydra wrote: Hi! I'm reading on, so sorry for replying soon. Magnus, what is the next good paper? Oh, do read the Oliver Collins The Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters IEEE transactions on Communications, Vol 44 No 5, May 1996 pp 601-608 Toss in this paper:

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 10/09/11 22:09, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote: On 09.09.2011 11:52, Javier Herrero wrote: I think that the same question that has been discuted here a zillion times but usually around 10MHz... anyway, what would be the best way to convert a sine wave to a LVDS clock (preferably duty cycle 50%) at

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/10/11 9:38 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: Probably, but the horology server seems to have gone offline, which is sad since it was a good place to find almost all of Greenhalls papers. Interesting.. I just checked inside the firewall, and the hostname isn't valid (so it's not just that it's

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread ehydra
Thanks Magnus! I have no access to IEEE papers. I read Bruce' pages already. - Henry Magnus Danielson schrieb: Oh, do read the Oliver Collins The Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters IEEE transactions on Communications, Vol 44 No 5, May 1996 pp 601-608 Toss in this paper:

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Tijd Dingen
...@arcor.de To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS Thanks Magnus! I have no access to IEEE papers. I read Bruce' pages already. - Henry Magnus Danielson schrieb: Oh, do read

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Lux
... From: ehydraehy...@arcor.de To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS Thanks Magnus! I have no access to IEEE papers. It's a fairly recent paper (1996, I think), so odds

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread ehydra
He he. For me Key West Florida is a synonym for status 'retired for fun' or because career end (because already earned enough money for the rest of life). - Henry Jim Lux schrieb: However, another search does turn up: Oliver Collins, who now lives in Key West, Florida, ... So maybe he'd be

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread ed palmer
, September 11, 2011 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS Thanks Magnus! I have no access to IEEE papers. I read Bruce' pages already. - Henry Magnus Danielson schrieb: Oh, do read the Oliver Collins The Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters IEEE transactions on Communications, Vol 44

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
... From: ehydraehy...@arcor.de To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS Thanks Magnus! I have no access to IEEE papers. It's a fairly recent paper

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Javier Herrero
El 10/09/2011 23:39, Jim Lux escribió: On 9/10/11 9:15 AM, Javier Herrero wrote: Thanks, Magnus. The phrase The JPL units use a ua709-type operational amplifier to allow a high switching speed with low noise makes me thing a lot about how the concepts high switching speed and low noise have

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-10 Thread Javier Herrero
El 10/09/2011 22:09, Gerhard Hoffmann escribió: There is not much you can do with a LVDS signal on the receiving side but feeding it into a FPGA or converting it to something else again, introducing further jitter. Some ADCs may be able to live with the small differential voltage, but they

[time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Javier Herrero
Hello all, I think that the same question that has been discuted here a zillion times but usually around 10MHz... anyway, what would be the best way to convert a sine wave to a LVDS clock (preferably duty cycle 50%) at 180MHz? Texas Instruments suggest a LVDS receiver as a comparator

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Javier Herrero wrote: Hello all, I think that the same question that has been discuted here a zillion times but usually around 10MHz... anyway, what would be the best way to convert a sine wave to a LVDS clock (preferably duty cycle 50%) at 180MHz? Texas Instruments suggest a LVDS receiver

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Javier Herrero
Thanks for the reminder :) Te available 180MHz signal has that level, and it is quite heavily bandpass filtered, since it comes from a multiplier chain from an 45MHz OCXO, so the ADCMP604 will fit nicely Best regards, Javier El 09/09/2011 13:07, Bruce Griffiths escribió: Javier Herrero

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread ehydra
Hi Bruce - Do you have a reference to read on for this? Thanks - Henry Bruce Griffiths schrieb: Sub picosecond jitter is feasible if one cascades a series of low pass filtered limiter stages. -- ehydra.dyndns.info ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/9/11 6:37 AM, ehydra wrote: Hi Bruce - Do you have a reference to read on for this? I imagine that's the standard cascade of limiters used in zero crossing detectors.. google for JPL and Greenhall to get started. I can't remember the exact cite (or even if Greenhall was one of the

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Luis Cupido
I had similar need some time ago and I found that a differential pair with two (pnp) BFR93 worked much better than any comparator(three or four tested, but not the adcmp604). (was a pll reference and I judged the impact of such observing the phase noise at microwaves). lc. ct1dmk. On

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Holzworth's HX2410 http://www.holzworth.com/Spec_sheets/HX2410_Web_Datasheet.pdf claims femtosecond jitter albeit with CMOS outputs. This is difficult to achieve (especially at the lower end of its input frequency range) with a comparator with 1ps of internal jitter. A simple differential

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Jim Lux wrote: On 9/9/11 6:37 AM, ehydra wrote: Hi Bruce - Do you have a reference to read on for this? I imagine that's the standard cascade of limiters used in zero crossing detectors.. google for JPL and Greenhall to get started. I can't remember the exact cite (or even if Greenhall

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Javier Herrero
El 09/09/2011 21:16, Bruce Griffiths escribió: Since the input signal slew rate is so high a transformer with a centre tap biased halfway between the LVDS input levels with a pair of inverse parallel clamp diodes across the secondary plus a couple of low value series resistors between the

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread lists
I don't have one handy, but didn't the Motorola ECL manual or maybe application guide show how to make wideband circuits (comparators for example) out of ECL gates. (1989 was the last time I did any ECL. What a pain in the arse technology.) ___

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Griffiths
li...@lazygranch.com wrote: I don't have one handy, but didn't the Motorola ECL manual or maybe application guide show how to make wideband circuits (comparators for example) out of ECL gates. (1989 was the last time I did any ECL. What a pain in the arse technology.)

Re: [time-nuts] Sine to LVDS

2011-09-09 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
This article was in the PTTI proceedings around 1990. Highly recommended. Rick Karlquist On 9/9/2011 6:58 AM, Jim Lux wrote: On 9/9/11 6:37 AM, ehydra wrote: Hi Bruce - Do you have a reference to read on for this? I imagine that's the standard cascade of limiters used in zero crossing