Thank you for your detailed description. I wonder what kind of phase detector you are using. I have never heard of one that required 0.01Hz phase offset to lock. Even the simplest Phase-Frequency Detector (PFD) would do orders of magnitude better. Here are some papers:
1. Motorola App. Note AN-535 Phase-Locked Loop Design Fundamentals - the original mother lode on phase-frequency detectors - does not discuss deadband - I corrected this problem in my patent US3810234A https://www.nxp.com/files-static/rf_if/doc/app_note/AN535.pdf 2. HCT4046A phase-locked loop (PLL) Appendix B on Page 42: Loop Parameters and Equations Appendix C on Page 45: Basic Program for VCO Frequency Calculations https://www.ti.com/lit/an/scha003b/scha003b.pdf 3. Motorola MCK12140 Phase-Frequency Detector description https://pdf.dzsc.com/MCH/MCH12140.pdf 4. I prefer the filter network shown at the bottom of Table 2 on Page 4: Integrator Lead/lag network https://www.minicircuits.com/app/VCO15-10.pdf 5. You mentioned the difficulty in getting a low enough noise floor to measure the noise floor of the DOCXO. Rubiola has a nice paper on cross-correlation techniques that can easily add 20 dB to your measurement range: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.0113.pdf He shows some circuits in Figure 14 on Page 25: Basics schemes for the measurement of phase noise. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-le...@lists.febo.com
