Hi, I realize that I lack a microstepper. Consider that I have a stable and low-noise 5 or 10 MHz but I want to resynthesize to correct frequency and do phase-steps, and doing so without too much loss of noise.
This has traditionally been done using a variation of techniques, but if we would use some of the things that happened lately, pretty OK performance should be possible to achieve without too much hardware. OK, so after a discussion with Bob, here is one sketch for a possibility, just to toss one proposal to crush into pieces and propose improvements or better versions. So, consider using a modern Silabs chip clocked from an oscillator, producing a offset generator with I/Q and then do an I/Q mixdown to a beat frequency, which is digitized by a pair of ADCs. A pair of DACs produces I/Q which is used to mixed to produce the output signal using the signals from the Silab. The ADCs/DACs can be either be fed to some CPU platform or FPGA. With this platform one can choose to servo the reference oscillator, or just modify the beat received. Maybe use a Raspberry Pi as platform. Rotating the vector and steering the rate of rotation should not be extremely hard to do. The input vector can be added internally or used to steer the oscillator. Either way, the in loop noise from the Silabs will be fairly well suppressed since it only acts as a transfer oscillator. So, suggestions, thoughts and improvements? God Jul and Merry Christmas! Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
