[time-nuts] Sawtooth correction with a slower TIC

[Richard H McCorkle]

Tom,
That version was done a few years back when I was big on recycling
parts, so let me dig through my junkbox and see if I still have one
around.
Richard



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> I am very happy to hear you did this already. Impressive.
>
> Is there a prototype I could test here in my lab? I'd be very
> interested in measuring it. I hope to finish testing a dozen
> or more GPSDO this year; would like to have something
> this simple in the mix.
>
> /tvb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard H McCorkle" <mccorkle at ptialaska.net>
>
>> Tom,
>> I did most of the software development work using just the
>> uncorrected 1PPS into TMR0 and two scaled and summed PWM
>> outputs instead of a DAC, and the results were surprizingly
>> good. It made a very low cost, small footprint design without
>> the external counters and DAC. All the added extras since are
>> just part of my continuing education.
>>
>> Richard
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom Van Baak" <tvb at LeapSecond.com>
>>>
>>> > My original design used a 50 MHz TIC clock and the TMR0
>>> > prescaler as the phase counter giving 20ns single sample resolution
>>> > in the prototype system.
>>>
>>> In this case how about making a super-simple GPSDO
>>> and just put the uncorrected 1pps directly into TMRO.
>>> The sawtooth jitter of an M12+ is 9 ns rms, which is just
>>> the magnitude you need to improve on the 20 ns single
>>> shot PIC-based TIC resolution. If you average long enough
>>> even hanging bridges will not be a concern.
>>>
>>> You'd have to do some work to get fancier, but it's hard to
>>> imagine a PIC-only GPSDO that would be simpler.
>>>
>>> /tvb
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