Nick wrote:
I’m contemplating trying my GPS board with an FE-405B. That’s a different
kettle of fish, but at the end of that, if I’m successful, one of the goals
would be to be able to use it for the external reference of my 53220A.
Unfortunately, 15 MHz isn’t one of the options - only 1, 5 and 10.
So I did some googling and found a divide-by-3 circuit using flip-flops, and
then designed a board for it
You can achieve substantially lower jitter (phase noise) with a
regenerative divider, which also allows you to divide by 3/2 for a 10MHz
output. I've built several like that, and they work extremely well.
There are simpler divide-by-three logic circuits (generally, the simpler
the circuit the closer to an exact 50% duty cycle and the lower the
jitter). See the attached image for one approach.
Best regards,
Charles
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