I recently purchased a Motorola STLN4096A with the HP E1938A oscillator. I bought it for the oscillator only.

Then I got intrigued by the HP Z3817A GPSDO that's included. I've reverse engineered most of it and I've got it running. The 1 PPS is really good ( 1000 measurements, Std. Dev. of <200 ps, min to max range of <1.5 ns) and the HUP is very slowly dropping (currently at 13 us after ~1.5 days) as the oscillator works out the kinks after it's long sleep. It's dropping much slower than my Z3801A did when I first turned it on.

There's one input that I haven't been able to figure out. I've got data in and 1 PPS in from the GPS receiver. Everything seems to be working so I'm at a loss what that the other input could be for. There are no clues to it's function because it appears to go into one of the Xilinx chips.

Does anyone have any more info on the unit? Has anyone figured out the other input?

I have searched the net and the archives. There's very little info or discussion on this unit.

Ed


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