Hi Daniel:
If you're concerned with accuracy of impedance measurements you might want to spent a lot of time studying "The
Impedance Measurement Handbook", it's the bible for this. The way the measurement is made has a huge impact on the
accuracy. For example using a vector network analyzer to measure an impedance that's not near 50 Ohms causes poor results.
http://prc68.com/I/Z.shtml#KeyDocs
For frequencies low enough to use 4 Terminal Pair, that's the way to go.
http://www.prc68.com/I/HP4274_4275_LCR.shtml#MeasMtd
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Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
-------- Original Message --------
I´m a long time time-nuts lurker (I posted here just a dozen times). I make
a few impedance measurement systems for material analysis (i´m a single man
shop doing custom hardware for clients). Usually they´re based around a
STM32F4 / F7 microprocessor: DAC generates sine signal (1-400KHz), ADCs
measure them back, a few calculations later we have modulus / phase. I
always used internal ADCs and DACs (12 bits each).
I now want to use external ADCs and DACs with more bits to push the limits,
but i´m afraid that the poor performance of the STM32 PLL that drives the
clock will get in the way, so I plan to drive the "load" of both DAC and
ADCs from an external signal derived from a TCXO using a clock divider.
To get some sense of how much things are improving (or not) I need to
somehow measure these clocks and get a meaningfull measurement about how
good (or bad) they are.
The tools I have are a Hameg HM8123 with a 10MHz OCXO I shoehorned inside
and a Picotest U6200A with original OCXO. I can log period information from
both using serial/USB port. I can make a histogram of the data. I don´t
have any better idea about what to do and would like to hear from you :)
Daniel
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