On 8/30/12 9:04 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
A standard clock crystal is pretty much junk. as far as temperature performance
is concerned. Even a cheap TCXO is likely to be pretty good over 25 C +/- 10C.
yes.. but, say, one had a decent SC cut with good phase noise
properties, but large (but repeatable) temperature characteristics.
Can I get good accuracy AND good phase noise, for less hassle/power/size
than an OCXO?
My radio has a TCXO and a clock oscillator, so the clock oscillator is
my test article for the temperature compensation scheme..
Bob
On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
On 8/30/12 6:12 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
If the temperature is varying slowly *and* there are no gradients you may get
your order of magnitude over some range. You might be surprised at your TCXO. A
lot of them are pretty darn good in the vicinity of room temp. You may already
be an order of magnitude past your ppm or two for fairly normal temperature
changes.
Temp does vary slowly (the radio weighs on the order of 6kg)..
Need to hold spec (in theory) from -20 to +40C. The oscillator runs about 10
degrees hotter inside.
About 0.2 ppm from 5C to 40C. +/- 1ppm worst case over the whole temperature
range.
What I'm also interested in is whether I can compensate a non TCXO 66MHz CPU
clock oscillator (even cheaper, potentially better phase noise with a higher Q
crystal, etc.)
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