[time-nuts] DIY TimePod

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Mon Jun 13 22:38:05 EDT 2016


If the quantisation noise is random and spread uniformly over the Nyquist bandwidth (~40MHz??) then the noise floor is about -82dBc/Hz.If a pair of independent quantisers is employed then by using cross correlation techniques it should be possible to lower the system noise floor to -100dBC/Hz or less.
The problem lies in ensuring that the quantisation noise is actually random..With a high resolution RF ADC internal noise is usually sufficient (>= 1 lsb)) to ensure this.

Bruce
 

    On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 2:11 PM, Bruce Griffiths <bruce.griffiths at xtra..co.nz> wrote:
 

 The subsequent all digital mixdown and low pass filtering, if done correctly, will increase the resolution provided that the signal and reference periods are uniformly sampled at a sufficient equivalent number of points. But with a starting point some 70dB or more behind an ADC, the system noise floor wont be particularly low.

Bruce 

    On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 1:28 PM, Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:
 

 On Mon, June 13, 2016 6:51 pm, Bob Camp wrote:
> ... The ECL inputs to an FPGA rarely do have lower noise.

I was confused about that at first, the original poster was using external
ECL receivers for sampling, but had CMOS outputs to transmit the data to
the FPGA.

That sounds to me like a one bit quantizer, which has approximately 6dB
dynamic range (neglecting for the moment things such as non-linearity and
aliasing).  I don't see how you get any decent resolution of where the
edge transition actually occurs.

-- 
Chris Caudle


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