[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-09 Thread ghf
Am 2022-01-09 1:21, schrieb Bruce Griffiths: Yes, that post is full of misleading information. The TI document is irrelevant as the PIC based divider doesn't have non harmonically related signals using the same chip. All internal signals within the PIC are harmonics of the divided output

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-09 Thread Magnus Danielson via time-nuts
Hi, The traditional way is to lock an oscillator and look at the phase detector output. You get a high-pass filter from the locking, but for many purposes that's just fine. In some cases it is called "the golden PLL method". Cheers, Magnus On 2022-01-09 18:04, Marek Doršic wrote: Is

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-09 Thread Marek Doršic
Is there any method to measure random jitter without TimePod or scopes costing a small fortune? .md > On 9 Jan 2022, at 01:21, Bruce Griffiths wrote: > > Yes, that post is full of misleading information. > The TI document is irrelevant as the PIC based divider doesn't have non >

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Magnus Danielson via time-nuts
Hi Hal, On 2022-01-07 21:40, Hal Murray wrote: The two biggest outside influences on the PICDIV are supply voltage and temperature. Another interesting influence is the number of outputs that are switching and the load on them. In particular, if you have several outputs running at different

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Yes, that post is full of misleading information. The TI document is irrelevant as the PIC based divider doesn't have non harmonically related signals using the same chip. All internal signals within the PIC are harmonics of the divided output signal. The post did not distinguish between random

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Angus via time-nuts
Maybe it got mashed up, but I only linked to one post, and that addressed the specific question that had been asked. There is also, as far as I know, no 'misinformation' in it. However if anything does need corrected, I can easily do that. One of the main reasons that I did the test was all

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Milk jugs full of water work pretty well for added thermal mass. For some odd reason the typical fridge seems to be able to “accept” a number of them ….. A small fan to keep the air moving and knock down gradient based issues is a relatively cheap improvement. Bob > On Jan 8, 2022, at

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Attila Kinali writes: > Oh.. and if anyone is going to build a DIY oven for some instruments, a > 55x35x30cm > styrofoam box with 2cm wall thickness, suspended in air has a thermal > resistance of > approximately 3K/W. But beware that proper seating of the lid is quite > critical as >

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi There are a lot of different 78x05 devices out there and various outfits pay more or less attention to the tempco on various die shrinks / redesigns. You can see a *wide* range of temperature performance ( > 10:1) between different examples from vendor A vs vendor B. With any linear

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-08 Thread ghf
Am 2022-01-08 10:55, schrieb Attila Kinali: On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 12:32:10 +0100 Attila Kinali wrote: stable (e.g. LTC6655 or use a Jung SuperRegulator that uses an LM329/LM399 as reference). Oops.. wrong chip... I meant the LT3042 low noise LDO here, not the reference... Sorry about that.

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-08 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 19:05:58 -0800 Tom Van Baak wrote: > Attila -- I have not measured the voltco. Note the T2-mini has an > onboard regulator. I also have not measured tempco. Although the jitter > is about 1 ps the wander over that 10 minute run is about ±6 ps (2.4 ps > rms). Look at the

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-08 Thread Gilles Clement
Would an « AVRDIV » have similar performances, with similar 8 pins processors such as the Attiny13a ? Advantage : it features one cycle instructions, so possible to divide by many other factors (including odd numbers) GC > Le 8 janv. 2022 à 04:05, Tom Van Baak a écrit : > > All -- The 2012

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-08 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 12:32:10 +0100 Attila Kinali wrote: > stable (e.g. LTC6655 or use a Jung SuperRegulator that uses an LM329/LM399 as > reference). Oops.. wrong chip... I meant the LT3042 low noise LDO here, not the reference... Sorry about that. (Though the LTC6655 would work as LDO as

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The PIC controllers have gone through a large number of iterations and mask-shrinks over the years and your mileage may vary. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-07 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Tom The voltage coefficient of delay for a 74AC04 is around -300ps/V so with a tempco of -1.1mV/k for the output of a 7805 this results in an induced delay tempco of around +0.33ps/K for the 74AC04 due to the voltage regulator tempco. The typical propagation delay of the 74AC04 is around 4ns

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability

2022-01-07 Thread Tom Van Baak
All -- The 2012 test results for the T2-mini, which contains a PIC divider chip, is here: http://leapsecond.com/pic/jitter/ It's about 1 ps, or sqrt(2) less because it was comparing two T2-mini against each other with a common reference. Also note that this measurement is the sum total of

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-07 Thread Bruce Griffiths
That entire thread is full of misinformation and should be ignored unless one understands the difference between random and data dependent jitter. For a well designed divider with a single output frequency only the random jitter spec is significant. One doesn't need a bunch of expensive

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-07 Thread Angus via time-nuts
On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:40:49 -0800, you wrote: >> The two biggest outside influences on the PICDIV are supply voltage and >> temperature. > >Another interesting influence is the number of outputs that are switching and >the load on them. In particular, if you have several outputs running at

[time-nuts] Re: PICDIV stability (was: Crystal oscillator for a begginer)

2022-01-07 Thread Hal Murray
> The two biggest outside influences on the PICDIV are supply voltage and > temperature. Another interesting influence is the number of outputs that are switching and the load on them. In particular, if you have several outputs running at different frequencies, the clock-out delay should be