Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Hal Murray
t...@leapsecond.com said: > Can you explain more what you use a GPSDO for? For most people a GPSDO is > merely a replacement for a stand-alone XO or TCXO or OCXO or even rubidium. > As such, the more stable and accurate the frequency the better. Which is why > a FLL-based GPSDO, as Leo

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Dana, Can you explain more what you use a GPSDO for? For most people a GPSDO is merely a replacement for a stand-alone XO or TCXO or OCXO or even rubidium. As such, the more stable and accurate the frequency the better. Which is why a FLL-based GPSDO, as Leo describes, is a perfectly fine

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi A lot depends on just how long your “frequency” samples are. If the GPS is good to a nanosecond, you are at 1x10^-11 at 100 seconds. It’s a rare crystal based GPSDO that will hold closer than that frequency wise. The FLL is non peaking so that’s going to help things a bit as well. Bob >

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Dana Whitlow
Correction from Dana: I meant "... without accumulation of phase error during normal times ...". Sorry about that. Dana On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:45 AM Dana Whitlow wrote: > Leo, > > Are you saying that you want to abandon phase lock altogether in favor of > freq > lock? Or just during

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Leo Bodnar
Hi Karl, I will work on better website description. There are few loops in the device - GPS reference is PLL and the synthesiser is now FLL (used to be PLL.) Leo > Hi, Leo. The web pages for your precision frequency references say they use > PLL. Is that just for frequency generation, and

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Dana Whitlow
Leo, Are you saying that you want to abandon phase lock altogether in favor of freq lock? Or just during the reacquisition following loss of and restoration of the reference? By me definition of pure freq lock, there will generally be some permanent (but varying) frequency error, so that phase

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi On most commercial designs a “time reset” is done when coming out of holdover to take care of the PLL issue. This provision for this is detailed in most OEM specs. If you watch most of the eBay surplus GPSDO’s as they do their thing, you can see them do a “hop” when this happens. Bob > On

Re: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Karl Lautman
Hi, Leo. The web pages for your precision frequency references say they use PLL. Is that just for frequency generation, and you use FLL for resyncing? Karl On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 7:01 AM -0700, "Leo Bodnar" mailto:l...@leobodnar.com>> wrote: I have to draw your attention to practical

[time-nuts] Subject: Re: GPS 1PPS, phase lock vs frequency lock, design

2019-06-23 Thread Leo Bodnar
I have to draw your attention to practical aspects of why some designs use FLL rather than PLL. Consider a GPS locked OCXO outputting GPS synced 10MHz signal. Properly designed control loop will not produce much (if any) difference when the reference (GPS signal) is present. In the end,