Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-11-09 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 9/16/18 11:06 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > Moin, > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:38:55 -0700 > "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" wrote: > >> On 9/15/2018 3:26 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: >> >>> possible logic family for the task. Otherwise the harmonics of the >>> switching of the FF will down-mix high

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-10-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Azelio Boriani writes: >How many samples of the Loran input signal in that 1/6th of the period? Not many: At 5MHz sample rate it was 8 samples. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-10-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20181010165425.df6d24aa3825ca765f301...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali w rites: >> >"A Physical Sine-to-Square Converter Noise Model," >> > by Kinali, 2018 >> >[...] >Hence the first gain stage already aliases the noise from its whole >bandwidth, which can be a lot of noise if

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-10-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:37:43 -0500 Dana Whitlow wrote: > For example, take the case of 10 MHz starting frequency; the phase noise > several MHz out > is likely to be nil. But divide the 10 MHz down to, say, 1 Hz; then > there's likely to be quite a > lot of phase noise within "folding range" of

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-10-10 Thread Attila Kinali
Salut Mattia, On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:31:01 +0200 Mattia Rizzi wrote: > > People talk of aliasing and sampling, > > but do not describe where the sampling happens in the first place. > > After all, it's a time-continuous system and as such, there is no > > sampling. > > I would say that the

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-20 Thread Mattia Rizzi
Hi Attila, everyone, very interesting discussion! >People talk of aliasing and sampling, but do not describe where the sampling happens in the first place. After all, it's a time-continuous system and as such, there is no sampling. I would say that the sampling occurs when you're using only a

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-17 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi For moderate division ratios ( like 100 MHz down to 1 MHz ), the 20 log N stuff holds pretty well …. Bob > On Sep 17, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Dana Whitlow wrote: > > The act of squaring up the waveform alone might not do much harm, depending > on the extent > to which the phase noise on said

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-17 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:06:06 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > [2] "A Physical Sine-to-Square Converter Noise Model," > by Kinali, 2018 Oops.. I forgot to add the link to the pdf, sorry http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~adogan/pubs/IFCS2018_comparator_noise.pdf Attila

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-16 Thread Dana Whitlow
The act of squaring up the waveform alone might not do much harm, depending on the extent to which the phase noise on said waveform has already been filtered off. But it's mainly when the signal gets divided down by large ratios that the difference would become really noticeable. For example,

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-16 Thread ed breya
Atilla wrote: "Yes. This effect has been known for a few decades at least. What kind of puzzles me is, that I have not seen a mathematically sound explanation of it, so far. People talk of aliasing and sampling, but do not describe where the sampling happens in the first place. After all, it's

Re: [time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-16 Thread Dana Whitlow
I'd been thinking, in an admittedly non-rigorous sort of way, about this matter for some years. As I see it, it is certainly true that the phase of an oscillator's output is a continuous funciton of time. It could be described as a continuous ramp, whose slope corresponds to the frequency, and

[time-nuts] Noise of digital frequency circuits (was: Programmable clock for BFO use....noise)

2018-09-16 Thread Attila Kinali
Moin, On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:38:55 -0700 "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" wrote: > On 9/15/2018 3:26 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > > possible logic family for the task. Otherwise the harmonics of the > > switching of the FF will down-mix high frequency white noise down > > to the signal band (this is