[time-nuts] low noise multiplication to 100 MHz

[Peter Reilley]

Have you considered synthesizers?   I am using an Analog Devices AD9517 
to drive a A/D
converter at 250 MHz.   It has many clock outputs that are independently 
configurable.
It is intended for low jitter applications.

Pete.

On 1/21/2016 9:43 AM, jimlux wrote:
> My tiny 100 MHz low noise OCXOs are unexpectedly delayed at the mfr, 
> and I'm looking at alternative schemes.
> One is to get 10 or 20 MHz OCXOs (typically in stock) and multiply 
> them up. I've got the Wenzel ap notes on 2diode and using HCMOS (and 
> I've used the packaged Wenzel multipliers), and I think I have some 
> spare board real estate on another board.
>
> The 2diode multiplier describes using 1n5711 or 1n914, but I was 
> wondering if anyone has run this sort of multiplier up to 100 MHz?
>
> What sort of symmetry does the resulting waveform have (yeah, it's 
> basically a filtered sinewave, because you're picking a harmonic, but 
> I've been surprised before)?
>
>
>
>
> I'm driving an FPGA and a couple of ADCs.  The ADCs have differential 
> input that is 10kohms with 9pF in parallel offset from ground in the 
> usual way (we're using a transformer and appropriate bias resistors). 
> Not a 50 ohm load, in any case.  And it wants a clock that is high for 
> about 47.5% to 52.5% in one mode and much wider (30%-70% in another).. 
> I need to check.
>
> The FPGA is less critical noise-wise, and has a AD8138 buffer in any 
> case, which can fix a variety of evils.
>
>
>
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