Hi Everyone, I uploaded the paper to my music website.
http://www.rajsodhi.com/images/The%20Design%20of%20Low%20Jitter%20Hard%20Limiters,%20Oliver%20Collins%20May%201996.pdf Yours, Raj -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:39 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" On 8/21/2012 1:22 PM, David wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:43 -0600,<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am new to this forum. >> It looks like a lively discussion on various topics. >> >> A colleague of mine here at Agilent pointed me to this paper entitled "The >> Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" by Oliver Collins. In Bruce Griffiths' >> precision time in frequency webpage, this paper is described as "seminal." >> (http://www.ko4bb.com/~bruce/ZeroCrossingDetectors.html) >> >> Since I'm trying to create a limiter that will accept frequencies ranging >> from 1 MHz to 100 MHz, I thought it would be good to understand the >> conclusions of this paper (if not the mathematics as well). The mathematics >> turned out to be quite challenging to decode. Has someone on this forum >> unraveled the equations? It appears Collins has recommendations on the >> bandwidth and gain of a jitter minimizing limiter, and then extends this >> analysis to provide the bandwidth and gain of a cascade of limiters. But >> the application is still fuzzy. In figure 5, he shows a graph showing the >> dependence of jitter on crossing time. Is the crossing time (implied by >> equations 7) considered a design parameter one can vary? Also, on figure 4, >> the "k" parameter has been varied to show the rising waveform as a function >> of "k". The threshold is always assumed to be 0.5. So could "k" be related >> to "tau", the time constant of the RC filter? >> >> Thanks in advance for all your help. >> >> Yours >> >> Raj > I would love to take a look at this but the links to the paper at the > IEEE are dead. My Google search just turned up others looking for the > same paper. > Just search for the title on IEEE - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=The+Design+of+Low+Jitter+Hard+Limiters&x=29&y=18 Of course then you need to figure out how to pay IEEE for the privilege of reading the 672 kb paper. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
