Magnus Thank you for your recommendation I use Wenzel extensively as a matter of fact I just completed in the last three days two boards that have Wenzel on it and in my projects I can count 14 boards. Rise and fall time is my concern but I am open to suggestions that is why I turned to the list looking for the best. Thanks again Bert Kehren In a message dated 7/10/2014 3:09:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Bert, On 07/10/2014 04:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > As part of the FE 405 B project a separate output circuit is in the works. > The universal controller and auxiliary board are the same as used in the > FE5680A GPSDO but because of the very low ADEV a separate circuit board that > divides by three and has also two ground isolated transformer outputs is in > the works.The question is what is the best sine to square wave converter > with the lowest ADEV contribution. I am looking at Bruce's circuit using the > ADCMP600. Any other ideas? Do look at the Wenzel clockshaper [1], look at the TADD-2 [2] schematic. It's a PNP long-tail pair. The strategy is to provide modest gain. A known strategy to reduce 1/f noise and to some degree thermal differences is naturally feedback, as you will find in the NIST papers. Once you have the slew-rate up, going in for the kill with a straight comparator should give you all the nice output slew-rate you can wish for. Thus, this is not all that different to the mixer-setup you have done. I have modified my TADD-2 such that one of the output channels is fed from the input circuit, and this provides me with a squared up version. For a counter such as DTS-2070C, the difference is significant, which helps to show the potential of this simple design. I think the basic approach can be improved, and how far one has to go depends on how "clean" source you have. You end up with interesting measurement problems. An indirect way to measure the goodness of a squarer is to insert some known sine disturbance at say 30 or 40 dB below the signal. A straight comparator won't work very well. Be careful with selectivity of LC, as it is a nice way to become temperature dependent, so low-Q solutions is needed. Cheers, Magnus [1] http://www.wenzel.com/documents/waveform.html [2] https://www.tapr.org/kits_tadd-2.html _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to ht tps://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.
