[time-nuts] lunatic fringe time standards
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Thu Apr 15 11:42:00 UTC 2010
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:30:27AM -0400, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm not 100% sure I understand exactly what you are thinking about setting up.
This is completely theoretical at this point. Just the required geometry
size would be prohibitive.
> My guess is that the counter needs to run at the same THz speed as
> the oscillator. That's pretty fast. I suspect that what ever you use,
> speed / propagation delay in the counter it's self will be an issue.
> That will get you back to either a ripple counter or a Johnson counter.
Wouldn't you get large errors when you caught a ripple
during readout? That wouldn't be a problem with a Gray code.
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