On 12/5/12 12:06 AM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:
Hal Murray wrote:
[email protected] said:
What is the simplest phase detecter that could work? I think only
that, and
then a duouble oven crystal from eBay, a GPS and and Arduido.
You also need a good D2A to drive the EFC on the osc.
A synchronous filter of a suitably level translated (CMOS analog switch
plus low noise reference) PWM output should work well.
True.. but I think the OP was wanting something that doesn't require
designing a circuit and building it.
So what you really want is a high performance DAC on a Arduino shield,
or, alternately, a high performance DAC on a cheap eval board that you
can easily hook up to an Ardino type processor.
This is a bit trickier..
Lots of ADC stuff out there, not so much DAC stuff.
http://embeddednewbie.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-of-arduino-dac-solutions.html
seems to have a number of approaches. Adafruit has a shield with a
Microchip MCP4921 12 bit serial dac
here's a 16 bit solution http://www.shaduzlabs.com/article-12.html but
it's a "build it yourself" solution.
If you're not size/mass/power constrained, you might be able to find an
inexpensive used programmable power supply. I do this using a Prologix
controller driving Agilent E3646 power supplies.. Big, Expensive, etc.
but it does work.
Yes the Aruino is expensive compared to a bare uP chip but using one,
I thin
you could build a GPSDO without a PCB and the Arduino's USB
connection could
be usful for power and logging/control.
I wouldn't want to power a GPSDO from USB. It will get power cycled
every
time I need to work on the logging PC. Besides, you only get 2.5
watts. The
oven will probably take more than that during warm-up.
Bruce
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