Hi Ralph,
On 11/23/2017 12:38 AM, Ralph Devoe wrote:
Hi Time-nuts and Attila,
Thanks for the very interesting and informative criticisms. That
is what I was looking for. I don't agree with most of them, but I need
some time to work out some detailed answers.
There is some tough love here, but learned the hard way many times.
Some of it will take time to grasp and accept, but so far all I've seen
have been constructive criticism.
To focus on the forest instead of the trees: The method uses a
$300 student scope (Digilent Analog discovery- a very fine product), which
any skilled amateur can modify in a weekend, and produce a device which is
10-100 times better than the expensive counters we are used to using. The
software contains only 125 lines of Python and pretty much anyone can
write their own. In practice this device is much easier to use than my
53132a.
There exist several works that have used SDR approaches to measure
phase. It is not new and unknown. The Microsemi phase-noise and
stability test-sets is good examples.
This is not to say that there is no value in looking at what can be
achieved.
What you do is just a variant of heterodyne receiver, and essentially a
DMTD using ADCs and phase estimation using least square filtering. It
just takes a few re-drawing stages to show that.
You would need to show how the phase estimation is actually done on that
signal, the given explanation is not very helpful as it sketches the
processing and hands of to some library. This crucial point should be
handled with more care and detail. Using such a least-square fit, I want
to understand how the phase is estimated in such non-linear function.
Also, you should compare to I/Q demod, arctan and a truly linear least
square.
Already the title is interesting, since it is really not Allan Variance
measurement as such but phase measurement, which then can be used to
produce Allan Deviation measures.
Cheers,
Magnus
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